Tag: Just Because
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5. The walls have eyes, don’t you know?
That’s the funny thing about the walls of the Mansion. Sometimes, they have eyes, sometimes they don’t even have a wall. They move. And not only in the normal creaking way that walls do occasionally. The fax machine upon the desk sprang into action, printing out a message from the person who, at that very…
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4. Beware! There’s a loose stone on the step
The step. The dodgy step. I know there’s a loose stone, so usually use the back door, but visitors, occasionally, discover the loose stone themselves. The stone itself isn’t a problem, but when it’s moved, it – sometimes – and I must emphasise sometimes – opens the trap door on the step, delivering visitors to…
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3. Use the doorbell, not the draw–ah, never mind!
The doorbell works sometimes, but not others. The very old doorbell is still connected, and used to work by pulling a heavy rope outside the main doors to the Mansion. It still rings back in the day when it was used, some time years ago, in the Middle Ages, but it doesn’t ring in our…
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2. Who’s that rapping on the door?
This Mansion, it must be said, has its quirks. Changing views from windows, travelling through time, creating whole new rooms within wings that never existed before and completely altering its appearance are but a few of the random things that wouldn’t normally happen to any other building. Given the visitors to the Mansion proper, and…
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1. Unlikely? I’d say so!
Eerily, the Grinds fell silent early. At dusk, those who’d gathered for the Gathering, got up and left to gather elsewhere. The onset of darkness was diminished somewhat by the sudden appearance of a bright, large Full Moon. A Full Moon never the less obscured by wispy clouds on an unusually warm October’s evening. Around…
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