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by Lucy Sussex

It began with a difference of opinion, between myself and my employer Madame la Duchesse Claudine Recherche Dubois.

“Ghosts and murders! Pepin, they do not mix.” Read more

by Jay Lake

“We've built a tower to be closer to the sun,” said Brother Linnaeus.

The other three golden monks attending him at his bedside in the votarium murmured their assent. Brother Linnaeus rather wished they wouldn't do that so much, but his temper had been…impetuous…in his younger days. We all have our sins, he thought. How else would we earn forgiveness? Read more

by Stephen Dedman

“Let me guess,” said Madame Genevieve, quietly enough that no-one else in the salon would hear. “You’re here about the Thunderbird, aren’t you?” Read more

by Cat Sparks

The rococo splendour of the lobby did not faze Padraic, but the thought of selecting his future bride filled him with an unaccustomed nervousness.

“How old did you say they are?” he asked. His companion, Dasan, also unimpressed by the finery of their surroundings, gave a slight shrug as their footsteps echoed loudly through the hall. “Not old enough,” he said. Read more

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