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Jan 24

A Word With Myself

Sitting by the stream of consciousness — [Author’s note — I was puzzled and/or disappointed not to see this published in Hinged 326. Imagine my chagrin, when coming back to check, to discover that the Submit button was still waiting for me to click it. Oh well… better out than in.] Clothespins? What is clothespins? Pegs, it’s…

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A Word With Myself
A Word With Myself
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Published in Hinged

·Jan 14

A Change In The Light

Numquam Extinguit — Welcome, everyone. I see some of you already have the visitors’ guidebook — if not, it’s available at the Gift Shop on your way out — and if you’ve read it, you’ll know that while parts of Lanthorn House date from mediaeval times, what we see today was built mostly…

Hinged

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A Change In The Light
A Change In The Light
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Published in Hinged

·Dec 17, 2022

Words Fail Me

Fold up and eat — “Would you like pepper pony on your pizza?” The child nodded eagerly at her grandfather’s question. “And origami, please?” “Of course. For you, nothing but the best.” He busied himself with slicing and grating and careful arrangement of ingredients before topping it all off with the dried green herb. …

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Words Fail Me
Words Fail Me
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·Dec 10, 2022

Career Arc

It’s magic — “Three, two, one — abracadabra!” Jimmy tapped the handcuffs with the wand, and they fell open. I raised my freed hands in triumph. The audience erupted in applause. Jimmy bowed, drinking it all in. He never told me how the illusion (“It’s not a trick! I don’t do tricks!”) worked…

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Career Arc
Career Arc
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Published in Hinged

·Nov 19, 2022

Cast Irony

Coming to the point — “They’re doing WHAT!!!” Edgar’s training as an actor was paying off again. Every one of the three question marks was audibly straightened. They cowered together at the loud end of the sentence, standing to attention and trying not to shiver. “They’re levelling raised and sunken ironworks,” his wife (who had…

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Cast Irony
Cast Irony
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Published in Hinged

·Nov 5, 2022

By Its Cover

Who knows what may be inside? — The Anarachi Book Of Quells is among the most curious of all religious texts. Adherents to the Doctrine of Anarach revere it, without ever having read it or even seen it: they believe it was handed to Anarach to be memorised, then taken away (or, in some versions of the…

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By Its Cover
By Its Cover
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Published in Hinged

·Oct 29, 2022

At The Transplant Clinic

An Halloweenegory — Hey, you, blacksmith. I hear you’re the best in the business, right? In that case, I have a job for you. First, can we go somewhere more quiet? I have trouble with noise, you see. And a few other things. Like, do you see my lips moving? That’s right, you’re…

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At The Transplant Clinic
At The Transplant Clinic
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·Oct 22, 2022

Badge Of Honour

Homes and Watsup are puzzled — “Homes,” I asked aloud, “what is the sine of four?” “If you were talking about degrees, then from memory it would be 0.069756,” said Shylock Homes. “If your units were minutes or seconds of arc, then I would inquire why you are attempting trigonometry on such tiny angles as only…

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Badge Of Honour
Badge Of Honour
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Published in Hinged

·Oct 8, 2022

The Bitter End

Homes and Watsup don’t know what’s coming to them — I hate him. It had started so well. I recognised an intellect comparable to my own: which is to say, superior to the vast majority of humanity. I was surprised, then, to find myself excited to discover that he was also a single man, of approximately my own age, and…

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The Bitter End
The Bitter End
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·Sep 24, 2022

Inheritance

(Or inhisitance, I can’t tell) — “Whatcha drawing there, Marcie?” asked her grandfather. The few curved lines on the sketchpad gave no clues. The nine-year-old did not look round as she stared intently at the tiny thing in front of her. “Wasp,” she breathed, almost whispering. The pencil remained as still as the rest of her. …

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Inheritance
Inheritance
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