Tag: seance
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The Circle of Time
“Existing outside the circle of time.” Bartolemy said, placing drinks he had bought on the table next to his friend. “Imagine what that would be like!” “Complicated.” Hoenig thought. “Didn’t I ask for lager?” “Mrs. Brandleby-Hogg says that’s what spirits do. Her spirits, anyway.” “I should think the evidence for the effect of spirits on…
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The Patient Sea
THe Patient Sea Another ‘short’ from my archives, but a quite special one for me, for reasons I can’t expand upon here. I hope you enjoy it. The dusk had reached a late, frosted luminosity, as yet too bright to submit to the superiority of the car’s headlights. A red line topped the western hills…
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Three. Remembering Wenceslas
The little auditorium of the Gaiety Theatre was hushed, expectant. The audience, held in thrall, focused, every eye upon the stage and the motionless figure of Daphne Scott-Halperton, slumped in a chair that had baronial pretensions. Daphne suddenly stirred. Her arms and fingers quivered. “I feel,” she declared in a stentorian tone, “I am in…
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