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The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Three
Helena sat down at the bedside, handed over more grapes, a small bag containing some of his things, razor, tooth brush, that sort of thing. He was smiling at her in a lop-sided way. “I [more…]
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War Crimes Part Twenty-Nine – Edge, The Skeletal Grasp From The Past
Day 4 Horace Cutler was as irritable as a hungry grizzly bear with haemorrhoids the following morning and he was in no mood for any self-pity from Edge. “Did you have breakfast this morning, son, [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Fifty Two
“Sam, I want you to tell me exactly what happened in there, while I was in the office.” Alan had decided to wait, let them all get some rest, regain some perspective, himself especially, get [more…]
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Tilda and the Witches 4.4
ACT 4 SCENE 4 Outside the temple at Thurralibad. The Street is deserted. Enter TILDA, FELIX, ETTY, VULPECULA, JESSICA, KEVIN, Uraemian SOLDIERS and PIRATES.
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The Unseen Path – Part Fifty One
They were walking back the five miles from the village where the new American girl was staying with an older married couple like Martha and Iltud, children no longer at home, who were paid by [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Fifty
He was lost, could be walking in circles in this featureless desert forever, neither hot nor cold, no real sensations here other than the ones he felt in his mind, no perception of time at [more…]
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Tilda and the Witches 4.3
ACT 4 SCENE 3 Aboard the Pirate Ship. Night. Enter TILDA and ETTY in Sailors’ Garb, FELIX, VISCUS, KEVIN and PATRICK, with PIRATES. They speak in hushed Voices.
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Nine
Later that morning ‘old’ Ted left what was becoming part of his daily routine, another COBRA meeting. They were starting to get properly scared now, especially when he told them that the arson attacks were [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Eight
It was bad, not inevitably terminal, but beyond her ability to fix properly. No trace of heart damage, but the bullets, as these modern horrible ones seem designed to do, had fragmented on hitting the [more…]
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Tilda and the Witches 4.2
ACT 4 SCENE 2 Aboard the Pirate Ship. Enter TILDA, ETTY and KEVIN.
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The Unseen Path- Part Forty Seven
A few feet above them in a subsidiary attic specifically set aside for hideaways like him, Suleiman al-Libani heard the accented English-speaking voices. One sounded Antipodean, another unrecognisable. He had made it out of London [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Six
Eleven o’clock now, all ready to go into town, park by the restaurant just before twelve, make sure there was beer on their breath, ham it up a bit so it would be just another [more…]
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Tilda and the Witches 4.1
ACT 4 SCENE 1 A Tavern in Hafnium, a Port City in the Country of Hedera, near the Border of Uraemia. Enter FELIX, TILDA, VULPECULA, VISCUS and JESSICA, with the LANDLORD of the Tavern.
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Five
Her day had dragged like no other she had experienced; she’d had a couple of quick calls from Elaine to say there was no change. How was she keeping? Probably not that much different from [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Four
“I’m sorry Ladies and Gentlemen,” said the Director of MI5, surprising the other attendees of COBRA with the heat of his emotion, “but I don’t think you fully understand the implications of last evening’s incidents. [more…]
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Tilda and the Witches 3.6
ACT 3 SCENE 6 Felix’s Camp in the Mountains. Enter FELIX, TILDA, VULPECULA, ETTY, JESSICA and VISCUS.
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Three
Where was he? Over an hour late, no replies to texts. After her cousin had left she had spent the day working, then getting ready and then cooking something special for him, even getting out [more…]
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The Unseen Path – Part Forty Two
Well, he and they had tried. He had felt that he had to go and spend Easter Day with Sally’s parents; after all he had nowhere else to go other than work. He had driven [more…]