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WHEN WILL ALVA SETS OFF ON A ROUND-THE-WORLD ADVENTURE THINGS TURN KIND OF SCARY

Once the celebrated explorer of the late empire, Captain Ashcombe returned to England to build Africa House.

Who is Stronger?

In the hushed glow of lamplight, Anastasia finds herself caught between clocks that refuse to agree, a pocketwatch that ticks with its own strange urgency, and a Queen of Hearts card that moves when i

A night in Majorelle blue—roses, stars, and enchantment blur into memory in a bar of warmth and wonder.

warning from the air

‘Getting to know you, getting to know all about you…’ - Rodgers and Hammerstein

All is not as it seems

A man is woken by screams

The Fool and the Queen

The Hours that Slipped

‘Opposites attract…then attack…’ - Barbara Bradley Hagerty

‘A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.’ - Oswald Mosley

Two climbers get abducted by a UFO while trying to climb Everest.

A storm is approaching, a woman is in labour and two strange men lurk in the shadows

My window is stupidly narrow. Whenever I smoked and couldn’t muster the twenty seconds it takes to clear my ashtray, the wind would spurt through; like an arrow through the arrowslit...

Denis Burbank, a US geologist, visits the Uyuni salt flats and gets more than he bargained for.