Wish You Were Here? ✉️
We’re exploring the "Alternative History Sliding Door"—from the Black Death to the SS-occupied Yard.
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“Espionage is easy. Living with it isn’t.” 🕵️♂️📜
Guest Post & Excerpt from EYES TO DECEIT by GABRIEL VALJAN, book four in The Company Files.
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“Espionage is easy. Living with it isn’t.” In EYES TO DECEIT by @gvaljan.bsky.social, Operation Ajax and MI6’s Boot collide in the 1953 coup in Iran, forcing Walker to decide what he’s willing to sacrifice.
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THE HOLLOWS — Rainmirror (One Seat)
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10/10
Lever man: “You sure?” “I’m the boy who shows up.”
Green tries to mean it. Her wristband blinks HLLWS.
I walk home one letter light.
Names grow back different when you use them for someone else.
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2/10
By late day the pond turns to metal you can see yourself in if you’ve earned it.
We call it slackwater #Rainmirror.
The Corridor calls it a wetland asset. Bless their hearts.
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The little things make it stand up.
Word choice.
Sentence rhythm.
Pacing.
Transitions.
Sensory detail.
Consistency of voice.
Rewriting.
And sometime…re-imagining.
Playing Coltrane
Coming July 2026 from Grand Central.
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Four great reads for the price of a coffee (AI says average price £3.35 but you know what we mean...in London, it's fiver)....
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No fanfare. No swing of the door.
She was just there.
Like she'd always been there.
No One Dies in Tobago continues with Chapter III.
New post live on Patreon.
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