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Lili was accompanied to the senior inspector’s office by the sergeant who had been stationed to guard her door for the night. Forster sat there quietly looking out through the closed window onto the parade ground, where some drills were in progress. The sounds of horses and the raised voices of drill instructors broke into… Read more
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The cab trundled off along Bourke Street. Lili nodded to the receptionist in the hotel lobby and climbed the stairs to her room. Inside, she took off her capote bonnet and hung up her dolman coat, idly feeling through the wardrobe for the one or two dresses that might do for The Pirates of Penzance.… Read more
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“So it’s worthless…” Lili said. “On the contrary,” Kaminski continued. “At first one sees only the flaw – before noticing the extraordinary character: that soft warmth, and the faintest blue cast. I seem to recall a reference made some months ago in an issue of the Jewelers’ Circular and Horological Review from the United States…” Read more
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Thirty miles north of Stawell, ten west of Lubeck, a station on the line, Rupanyup was one of the new townships that had sprung up within the past seven or eight years as an outcome of land selection in the north. Roused from sleep by hysterical kookaburras just on dawn, Forster went out behind the… Read more
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To my dearest friend and comrade Mow FungMay blessings of the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginnings be upon you. As I prepared my old inkstone with a little Madeira, I was wondering what my aim was in writing this to you. I think there might be something more behind it than briefing you on a… Read more