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Cate Gardner is a fellow Hadley Rille writer from Canada, and she has a new novella out, Theatre of Curious Acts. Although she writes horror and I write space opera, we've agreed to swap guest blog posts. Since her book is out, she gets to go first. Herewith is her post.
"The Travelling Theatrical Tour: It Always Rains Here"
Many thanks to fellow Hadley Rille author, Chris, for allowing me to invade his blog as part of the tour celebrating the release of my novella, Theatre of Curious Acts. What follows is a fanciful account of the girl who found employment within the theatre's plumbing. Sybil Folk, wife of the Theatre Manager, matriarch and all-round battle-axe relays her tale.
"Raine Banks found employment with us when she wandered into the foyer toting a rain cloud. Perfect timing as we were experiencing problems with the old pipes.
We didn't have time to call out a plumber - what with scheduling the end of the world and all that. Besides, the people trapped in the walls spooked the last one. I told him, a place as old as this is bound to swallow a few patrons. Never did get that stain off the third cubicle floor. You'd think the girl with the rain cloud could have at least removed that.
Anyhow, when we realised the girl came equipped with a fully-working cloud and that it tended to pour whenever she got nervous, we thought no more worries for us, that'd we'd have a constant water supply. Mr. Folk even took his fortnightly bath three days early.
Problem is, she got lost in the plumbing and her constant hammering causes the pipes to shake something fierce thus loosening a few bolts. Mr. Folk puts a bucket underneath the drips until we can tighten a few bits or shoo her along to another part of the plumbing. Next time, we'll take a girl who is so busy weeping she hasn't the time to go shooting along pipes or hiding in the hot water boiler."
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Full instructions on how to apply to work at the theatre can be found in invisible ink between the lines of some of the pages of Theatre of Curious Acts. The book is available from all good online bookstores (and possibly some evil ones too). More details at the author's website: www.categardner.net
"The Travelling Theatrical Tour: It Always Rains Here"
Many thanks to fellow Hadley Rille author, Chris, for allowing me to invade his blog as part of the tour celebrating the release of my novella, Theatre of Curious Acts. What follows is a fanciful account of the girl who found employment within the theatre's plumbing. Sybil Folk, wife of the Theatre Manager, matriarch and all-round battle-axe relays her tale.
"Raine Banks found employment with us when she wandered into the foyer toting a rain cloud. Perfect timing as we were experiencing problems with the old pipes.
We didn't have time to call out a plumber - what with scheduling the end of the world and all that. Besides, the people trapped in the walls spooked the last one. I told him, a place as old as this is bound to swallow a few patrons. Never did get that stain off the third cubicle floor. You'd think the girl with the rain cloud could have at least removed that.
Anyhow, when we realised the girl came equipped with a fully-working cloud and that it tended to pour whenever she got nervous, we thought no more worries for us, that'd we'd have a constant water supply. Mr. Folk even took his fortnightly bath three days early.
Problem is, she got lost in the plumbing and her constant hammering causes the pipes to shake something fierce thus loosening a few bolts. Mr. Folk puts a bucket underneath the drips until we can tighten a few bits or shoo her along to another part of the plumbing. Next time, we'll take a girl who is so busy weeping she hasn't the time to go shooting along pipes or hiding in the hot water boiler."
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Full instructions on how to apply to work at the theatre can be found in invisible ink between the lines of some of the pages of Theatre of Curious Acts. The book is available from all good online bookstores (and possibly some evil ones too). More details at the author's website: www.categardner.net
