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Pumpymuckles       Copyright © 2016 by Jayne Fresina   Chapter One Ever Before   First the light, like a dying heartbeat, began to waver and dim. From that moment onward, everything that was normal and comforting transformed, from a once cheerfully glowing wick to a blob of fragile soot that curled inside the last tired lick of flame and finally expired, leaving a thin grey sigh. Then she felt the space thinning, smelled the burning, saw the air squeezing in on itself. And suddenly she stood in a tunnel, facing into the dark, her bones trembling with the...

Copyright © 2016 by Jayne Fresina Chapter One 1813 An Introduction in Mid-Air. (Well, one must begin somewhere)   Dangling from a drainpipe could be a distinctly drafty business, she discovered. It was also a pastime far from ideal when dressed in her Sunday best. However, if such measures were necessary, Melinda Goodheart was your girl. Few pupils at the Particular Establishment for the Advantage of Respectable Ladies would claim to be made of stronger stuff, and certainly none could prove it. As she clung to that rusted, cast iron pipe and felt one shoe begin its slow, tantalizing slip...