Time for a change – Part 0
It was a full month after 'The Event', and so far everything had been going on as usual. Obviously in the days after 'E-Day', when the sky flashed with multi-coloured lights, the seas had risen and fallen, and people had proclaimed it to be the end of...
03 - Rain always brings out the crazies...
Daylight languished under a planned seven-day rainstorm. The leaders of the city, through political and literal backstabbing, had managed to land the contract for a prestigious inter-city sporting event. There were to be parades and pageantry, in the...
02B - Back to Work
Hesh was sat in her office, nibbling on the end of a pencil as she tried to fill out a hardcopy report. The door opened and she tossed both objects away with a frustrated sigh. Looking up she saw Purity enter with a bundle of files under his arm. She...
02A - Much Earlier...
Daylight had places that nobody every went. That, ironically, never saw daylight. These were the great, grinding bowels of the city. Places that ran on automatic. No technicians would actually enter them due to toxicity or inaccessibility. Instead...
02 - Surrogates and Soviets
Detective first class Dreb'n sighed as the door to his office's antechamber closed behind him. The scant protection of the cheap metal didn't do much to dim the blare from the precinct house behind him. It was oven-hot in the lower city and no amount...
01 - Daylight in the City of Whores
The city of Daylight had many nicknames. While the great and good tended to select and revere those that praised its art, industry and the decadence of its nobles sport, the average citizen shuffling to work or hanging around its litter-strewn gutters...
The Stonehouse Mysteries - The Malicious Masquerade (Full)
Many people believe, thanks to both my own claims and the published works I have released, that my first case was that affair with the forged banknotes. However, since I am now setting the record straight it makes sense to go back to the first real...
The Stonehouse Mysteries 1.7 - The Malicious Masquerade
The aftermath of the incident passed for me in a blur of pain and painkillers. I was rather out of it when help found us; our car having swerved off the road several miles away from the village when a passing farmhand spotted us on his way to work. He...
The Stonehouse Mysteries 1.6 - The Malicious Masquerade
At first I thought that the fungal grove beyond the pit had somehow begun to collapse in on its self. I noticed the rotting trees and growths begin to nod and hunch towards that grotesque pit. Then a burst of ghastly steam and smoke, like the...
The Stonehouse Mysteries 1.4 - The Malicious Masquerade
Del and I were met in the hallway by some of the roguish henchmen that seemed to act as staff in the manor. They were tight-lipped as they lead us deeper into the house. Eventually we came to what appeared to be some sort of long gallery or adjoining...
The Stonehouse Mysteries 1.5 - The Malicious Masquerade
The passage through the dark gallery felt like an age, although it could only have been a few moments. I had kicked and bitten at my captors as best I could, and in the end they bodily hoisted me by my arms and legs to prevent too much danger to...
The Stonehouse Mysteries 1.3 - The Malicious Masquerade
Although I was quite dismayed at the state of the outside of Will's house, the interior was a vast improvement. Of course that left it somewhere shy of neglected, but at least it wasn't as bad as I had pictured. The floor was bare boards, grimy and...