Blimey, Joel - that was quick!
- Edward
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From: "Joel Weishaus" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [WDL] The Puzzle Box, Chapter 9
> The plot thickens!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Picot" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 7:34 AM
> Subject: [WDL] The Puzzle Box, Chapter 9
>
>
> "At the base of the back wall, between the skirting-board and the floor,
> the
> corner of something was poking out. It was pure fluke that she noticed it,
> because the skirting-board and the floor were both white, and the
> poking-out
> corner was white too. She crouched down and slid it free. It was like the
> back of a white credit-card, with a black magnetic band running across it.
> She turned it over. It was like an identity-card, except that there was no
> writing. At the left-hand end there was a picture of someone's face.
> Rather
> a disconcerting face: pale, white-bearded, with mournful, haunted eyes.
> People always look bad in identity-card photographs, but this face was
> especially ghoulish-looking. And she had the odd feeling that she'd seen
> it
> somewhere before."
>
> It's Christmas Eve, and Dora is trapped in a huge tower-block in the
> middle
> of London. She's lost the puzzle box, and she still can't find her Dad.
> But
> at least she's got Adam with her again.
>
> The ninth chapter of twelve.
>
> http://www.edwardpicot.com/puzzlebox/
> (If you don't see links to all nine chapters when you get to the Puzzle
> Box
> index-page, click CTRL + Refresh to update the page.)
>
> - Edward Picot
> http://hyperex.co.uk - The Hyperliterature Exchange
> http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
>
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