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Episode 26 The Red Seal

"Shareesh, it's the Seal."

"Oh! Greetings, Mr. Seal - I did not know it was you - a great pleasure, sir!

May-I-put-you-on-hold-sir? - Thank-you!"

The Red Seal's left ear was assaulted instantly by really, really bad music. The Red Seal, the City's preeminent super hero,

waited, listening to 'Tic-Toc-And-The-Time-Bandits'.

"New Deli Delhi Deli - Super heroes for hire, Special this week - 'Tic-Toc-And-The-Time-Bandits'.

They…

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A Visit From Old Saint Nick, or This Year We're Taking Back Christmas, Too

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;

The children, were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar plums danc'd in their heads,

And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap,…

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Episode 25

Heroes Are Built Not Saved, or Real Men Do Not Use Go To

Sherwood Forrest pulled up to the Robin Hood. Inside, he demanded the phone. The barman already on the office phone pointed to a tattered payphone in a far corner, next to the jukebox. The bar was gloomy to a fault, the area around the phone seemed, comparatively, a beacon of light. Something soupy, something ‑ country, played from the juke. It was only mid‑afternoon, early for the carriage…

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Saturday, June 07, 2008 A View To A Kill , or A Boom With A View The Fourth World Rift closed its doors. Those who were to remain inside did and those who were meant for outside found themselves back where they had been. Thirty minutes is not a long time, but all any traveller got. That day Red Seal found himself two… Continue

Table for Two or Two to Tengu



No trip to the Forth World Rift is longer than thirty minutes. Time ticks away from the instant one arrives and exactly at thirty complete minutes, one is whisked back to the place one is from. That means you have to get whatever it is you've come to do in under thirty minutes - or leave it there undone - and, time there begins at zero minutes to unwind the same again, another of countless repetitions.



The Tengu had entered the cafeteria to no… Continue