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Time has always been a little tricky in this series. The first story was clearly set in the Nineteenth Century but, though only a few years have passed, the series has now reached what is recognizably World War I. Mostly this occurred for reasons explained in "The Phantom in the Maze" and "Murder in the Spook House." (And which I anticipate giving me increasing difficulties in writing the next ten stories.) But also, in a more literary background sense, I wanted to cover the transition from a way of life now alien to us to something more modern, if not contemporary.
So time may get a bit more slippery in the future. That's if, of course, the stories go in the direction I intend. Sometimes the fiction has its own ideas where it wants to go and the author can only follow along meekly in its wake.
You can read the story here. Or just go to the ezine and poke around. It's a good place to poke around.
Above: The illustration is by Dave Palumbo. I'm grateful for that.
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So wish these stories were in print. My eyes are not what they were, which makes screen reading so much less rewarding.
ReplyDeleteThey will be, eventually. But there are another ten stories to be written before the collection can be assembled. So patience is required.
DeleteI enjoyed both of 'em. While 'Dragons of Paris' is the apparent heavy-hitter, obviously advancing the overall narrative, I do suspect that with the apparent light-relief filler of 'Halcyon Afternoon,' you're feeding us a set-up for a later larger payoff.
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