Stories tagged “estate”

• The Trunk

  “What’cha got there, Celia?” She turned quickly from her hunched position over the small trunk; Max stood, half-silhouetted, in the doorway. Despite his lank figure, he managed to blockade the entire door frame. He crossed his arms ex...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Clandestine Manner

  “No particular reason, really,” he replied, his voice uncomfortably saccharine, strolling easily into the room. “Call me crazy, but it’s just that when one sees another hunching over a trunk in a rather clandestine manner, it ra...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.
  • 5 out of 5

• Inexplicable Events

  “The good luck dress,” as her grandmother so often called it. Good luck, Celia thought with a note of spite. The last time it was worn was the day I was brought to this place. What “good luck” has come of that? Nothing! Her thou...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.

• Keep Yourself out of the Burner

  She was right; Max’s father, called Master Stevens by everybody in town, probably wished that his eldest & only son was a bit more orthodox, to spare the Stevens name from further suspicion or shame. “Why, were you lookin’ for him...

  • Author: g²LaPianistaIrlandesa
  • Posted almost 3 years ago.