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An interesting door! (Tales from the SSC&B)

Chris Hall57 Comments

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‘Well, it’s certainly a door, and it seems to be real, but I don’t remember seeing it before, it could be perplexing, but it’s bound to have some interest,’ as the red-headed writer (aka la Raconteuse), continue to talk to herself, as she muttered to say, ‘only one way to find out,’ as she grabbed the doorhandle.

The door opened rather easily, which was a blessing, and at least there was some light outside, since there was a window, in fact several windows; she’d pressed her finger on the light switch, but nothing, oh well, still down.

She was about to walked to one of the windows, but then she noticed a handy shelf, it had several candles and even better, a gorgeous candelabra – it was very posh – so she lightered all of those candles with a couple of matchers, ‘now this is looking interesting.’

She could use her affectation of candour, and often she would, but this was definitely not needed in this case, because there were so many wonderful objects in all those shelves around the room; all these things were amazing, and all of them were steampunk related: mostly it was art and sculpture, but all in miniature, or at least, small.

So, la Raconteuse began to look at each object, she was particularly drawn to a clockwork clock sculpture, more than beautiful.

She happened to look outside and down; she could see a taxi and a cabbie was waving to her, and rather urgently it seemed.

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Di of Pensitivity 101 – Wednesday’s Three Things Challenge: CANDLE, CANDOUR, CABBIE

Denise Farley of GirlieOnTheEdge
Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Word Prompt: INTEREST

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57 thoughts on “An interesting door! (Tales from the SSC&B)”

  6. Excellent, Chris, with another of your patented cliffhangers! With your steampunk and clockwork references, I thought for a second you were giving a nod to Rush’s part-steampunk-themed “Clockwork Angels” album. 🙂

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  13. A Six making the most of setting, which is fun in the sense of setting SSC&B and, of course, the tendency of the place to not be limited to the normal rules.

    that’s the thing about windows, they look out at a place that is not inside and therefore, could be most anywhere (or for that matter, anywhen)

    very fun Six. installment

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    • It’s such a great place in the wonderful old, large and quirky building. Hoping the lights will work soon, but more than that, we need several Proprietors who will arrive… near that particular room. Yes… fun!

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      • say no more…

        the ttm will be there for next week’s Six…

        I’ll write it in advance so you can see the set-up (of the tall, thin man’s arriving on the scene)

        I’m thinking that on the door, invisible to la R when she arrived (those damn lights) on the outside of the door is, worn almost to illegibility, Ordo Herm tic Ordo Herm ti us

        beneath that, a more modern Sharpie in: ‘As Below, So Above…Proprietors Only’

        I’ll work on a draft version on the weekend, will email

        also it looks in the Comments below that Reelika might have an interest in joining us in the room. That should be fun if she should choose to join us.

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    • Do please do that, if you like… happy to run into that strange, but interesting room – plus tall thin man (ttm) almost obviously. Fun. Defo. And here – Clark – just up there!

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  20. “…it seems to be real,..”

    The SSC&B has been known to have some surprise features so a door la Raconteuse doesn’t seem to remember seeing isn’t a total shock, lol, A mystery storage room? Let’s find out next week, Chris!

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