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More than dark! (Tales from the SSC&B)

Chris Hall51 Comments

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‘Well, that’s a pickle,’ muttered the red-headed writer (aka la Raconteuse) as she peer down to the stairwell from the roof, it appeared that all those light bulbs had blown, or maybe just that particular fuse had gone, which was more likely, as she continued to peer down.

Surely someone would flick that fuse up again, as la Raconteuse pulled out her smartphone, she felt either Tom or the Bartender would not pay scant attention to sort that out and soon.

Meanwhile, la Raconteuse grinned since she’d been reading using the app for Kindle on her phone, it was an excellent quirky novel, with a genre known as steampunk, she might continue to read, but it was getting rather cold by the flat roof and the moon was up now.

So she clicked her torch on the phone, then began to walk down the narrow stairs; she was hoping that she wouldn’t fall again since she had scarred one of her knees rather badly, although at least that scab had almost gone now.

She suddenly stopped by the nearest landing as her smartphone started to ping; ‘what’s this, I wonder,’ as she talked to herself out loud, ‘it’s a ping and another ping, surely this must be a scam,’ as she tried to work out what it said.

She stared around the darkness, then looked at her phone again, it said: how can it tell me to open a door, when I didn’t know there was a door here before?

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51 thoughts on “More than dark! (Tales from the SSC&B)”

  3. Oh dear. Let’s hope it’s not one of those old fashioned rewireable fuses because those are such a pain. They’re impossible to rewire when the room is completely dark.

    And who’s sending those cryptic messages?

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  12. I must know: Does the flashlight app on your phone call itself a torch? I know that is the word commonly used for it in your neck of the woods- just wondering if the industry names the application different thing depending on where the purchaser lives.

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  13. of course, as we Proprietors know fully well, there are way more doors in the building that houses the Six Sentence Café & Bistro than there are room.

    …just sayin’

    lol

    nice cliff-hanger

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  15. that redhead is one one of my fav characters in awhile, not because am a redhead too, or maybe it is, but steampunk… Doing things herself and that door thing would make me curious as heck…

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