Category: Confusion
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Gathering in the Grinds
Usually, at this time of the year, the Grinds become over-run with vampires, werewolves, zombies and the like. Rather than getting too close to them, I tend to let them have their little Gathering on Halloween and then move on to wherever it is they go from there. The creatures that dwell in the Grinds…
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Nailed
I left the Mansion yesterday where I noticed something nailed to the tree outside the Front Door. On closer inspection, it was Maribel. How she got there is beyond me; the last time I saw her she was locked – erm – on the shelf in the Study. And the even more confusing thing is…
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Contract 42: The Eternal Circular
Queenie noticed the bus approaching in the distance, over the brow of the hill. “That’s an old bus” she muttered to herself as she rummaged through the stack of old Lottery tickets and sweet wrappers in her handbag, looking for her bus pass. She didn’t speak aloud, although there was nobody else with her at…
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The Halloween Selfies
It had to be done. Vampires should always have cool hair. Werewolves have a slightly untamed look… and almost but not quite wild eyes. Ghosts need to be semi-transparent. Witches and warlocks need to look as perfectly normal as they possibly can. Mummies need to give off an almost human feel. Zombies must look as…
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View(?) from the window: Boxed In
I don’t know what I noticed first. The darkness or the skittering sounds coming from the Vestibule. Maybe it was both at the same time. I popped my head in as I walked passed and noticed immediately where both were coming from. The darkness caused by a huge brick wall just outside the Vestibule window;…
The Mansionic Perspective 