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Chaotic lifestyle

This is so far out of keeping with anything else I am ever likely to write that I hardly know what to do with it. My first NHS job was in admin in child protection. Eight is not an exaggeration. – – – – – – Andrea Westcott. Age 34. Chaotic lifestyle. I always hated […]

Of the Red and the Gold

By Alex Brightsmith March 6, 2012 Leave a comment

I was rather hoping that if I wrote a teaser for Venya’s story the rest would follow. Doesn’t seem to be working so far, but for what it’s worth, here’s the teaser . . . – – – – – – The Lady died nearly six hundred years ago, and has been consigned to […]

. . Kathryn Blake

By Alex Brightsmith March 5, 2012 Leave a comment

So, the girl currently calling herself Kathryn Blake, who is . . . only and always Kate – that short, sharp blade of a name that suits her down to the bone . . . How best to introduce her, . . . straight and slim and silhouetted starkly against the pastel sky? It hardly […]

. . . Alex Brightsmith

By Alex Brightsmith March 5, 2012 2 Comments

I want to tell you a story. No, scratch that . . . I want to tell you a whole lot of stories. I want to tell you about mistrusting, mistrusted Kathryn Blake – traceuse, pickpocket and cat-burglar – the girl who got into Kimine’s machine on the ground floor, and smashed it all to […]