Tag: Unlikely Alibis
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8. The Witching Hour
The Grand Clock struck four as the latest guest arrived at the Mansion, carrying garden produce, a painting and a card. It wasn’t quite midnight, but the Clock didn’t know that. Neither did the visitor for that matter, but she had been caught up in terrible roadworks just outside the Mansion. Well, the Grinds, and…
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7.Wet Dreams
I dreamed I was creeping around outside the Mansion, Tom. I swear, it was just a dream. I don’t think I used my inner time traveler to flit across the ocean and stand in your garden…….but I saw you through the window, styling your hair, and I ran from your Inner Zombie. It chased me…
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6. Keeper of visions; Caster of shadows
The doorbell rang as the Grand Clock struck the hour. It was ten-past, but the Grand Clock always liked to be different. Miss Duncan, the by-now familiar Head Maid, opened the door to find a lady standing and smiling there. “Greetings to you all!” she beamed. “Oh, do come in!” Bellowed the Head Maid, as…
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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…