Smoke and Fears

"I found myself entranced"
"...engaging characters moving about in a world that is surprisingly vivid for a short story"

Marsden cannot remember his real name, nor how he came to be a valet for the schoolboy son of a powerful magician. Phantom wisps of incense and narrow glimpses of memory are all he has, until he chances upon a family secret which only compounds intrigue. What might his young master Abel know of his amnesia? What binds him to the Wensleys? And why does he, a simple valet, know fragments of magic?

A short story of gaslamp fantasy and historical mystery in the Victorian age. Click the Look Inside feature on the top left hand of the page to see what adventure awaits!