Happy Halloweekend! This spooky season, us Cheshirites have three treats (no tricks... probably) to add to your candy basket — please enjoy tucking into a novella-length Interstellar Sleuth story, the next Disparate Minds, and a prelude to the previously promised Jenny Everywhere story! Get under your blankets, grab your popcorn, and tuck in...
The spooky cover of Hotel Warren, drawn by the talented Newton Locheye ( @newtonlocheye)!
Hotel Warren is the first novella-length story in The Interstellar Sleuth series, written by series creator Elodie Christian ( @elohdee-tumble), and edited by Ostara Gale ( @a-wartime-paradox) and Aristide Twain ( @aristidetwain). Lotto is on her way back to Walter's Hope, the town that had lead to her death, but this time, she's not alone. With her is a missing teen who thinks she is King Arthur... and she might well be right. Still, even legends need to rest, and so Lotto and her charge Max stop for the night at a roadside hotel, owned by the mysterious Peter Warren. When rooms seem to move and the facts aren't adding up, Lotto starts to wonder if the owner's ghost stories are more than just tourist-enticing tall tales...
Plum Pudding made the cover and it is the dumping ground (the dumping ground). You will Understand. Soon.
Junior, the next installment in Disparate Minds, was written by Plum Pudding. Edited by Ostara Gale and Aristide Twain. June has become used to Avenue and this is a terrifying thing. As she examines her new life and her old, she comes across a repeating pattern, and people even more lost than her.
This whimsical illustration was drawn by the even more whimsical Theta Mandel ( @theangelshavethephonebox).
The Face of the Unknown - Overture is the prelude to an upcoming Jenny Everywhere story by Aristide Twain. The prelude, also by Aristide, was edited by Theta Mandel, and follows a Jenny Everywhere as she shifts back into her body and finds herself a prisoner sailing in a ship on the Chronon Sea. As she tries to piece together what the hell happened to her body while she was gone, she also has to figure out how to get out of the situation the other Jenny left her body in, and most importantly, if the Illuminati really exist. This story shows what happened to (the body, at least, of) Jenny after the events of A World of Pure Unimagination.
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