Tag: Short Story
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Halloween 2015. Part One: Something old, something new, something borrowed
The night was dark. The road was long. The driver slumped at the wheel. The car veered to the left and crashed into a large oak back from the kerb. “Oh dear” the passenger in the back muttered to herself. She reached into her handbag and obtained a small bottle of correction fluid and dabbed…
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Then it was gone
Is it a mirage?A figment? Distant ghostly laughter far out to sea?And an object of my imagination?Out there on the horizon is a pirate ship. Large and solid although blackened by shadow. It appears at the same place at the same time every night. And a minute later it fades from view. Not that it…
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In-Flight Entertainment
Appearing positively green as she flew by the light of the Moon, Crumbella giggled and cackled, and chuckled and gurgled with delight as she pointed her old faithful, Bent Wanda, to any unfortunates who happened to see her. Spotting an elderly gentleman pointing up at her, she returned the rude gesture with Bent Wanda, and…
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The Beast of Smuggler’s Copse
Sometime during the Seventeenth Century, a man by the name of Everett Raven decided to leave his life of an English gentleman behind him, and set out to create a new life for himself on the high seas. For five years, it is said, Raven explored and discovered many new, uncharted places in the new…
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The Bat, The Cat, The Rat and The Hat
“It was the radiator, obviously!” Enid was having nothing to do with the silly tales of magic, witchcraft and hocus pocus, and that was all she could come up with to explain the strange clanking noises coming from the wall behind the cauldron. It was Carmichael’s idea to break into the old place. The dig-out…
The Mansionic Perspective 