Tag: Rumour
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Continuum – Episode Twenty-Nine: Time to Choose.
In the previous episode: Acting upon Hasuga’s demand that she remove a book from the City’s Inner Library, Alanee takes the elevator deep into the rock below the city, where she finds the sanctuary of the Book of Lore guarded by Karkus, aged progenitor of The City itself. In stealing the book she is discovered…
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Five. The Lost Ones
On the morning following her second date with Patrick Karen met her best friend, Bea, at Café Trocadero, a small coffee bar in a back alley off North Street in Caleybridge. “I got you a Cappucino.” Bea greeted her, her welcome flashing through deep navy blue eyes. “There’s a queue already.” For all its lack…
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The Public are cautioned not to feed the Sharks by Hand
Scandals pepper our history. Those in public life daily run a gauntlet of falsely conceived accusations of impropriety, as well as some genuine ones. The media, or hitherto the gutter press, has feasted eagerly on the carcasses of the luckless and the guilty, while those most adroit in the art of escapology survive. Bad…