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Yuri’s Yeti #AtoZChallenge 2022 Murder Motives

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 29, 2022 January 19, 2023 A To Z Challenge 2022, Uncategorized

Hello, and welcome to my 2022 A to Z Challenge! For a detailed explanation of my theme this year, see my theme reveal. But basically, I am exploring classic mystery novel murder motives, by making up a victim (Sir Adam Bracegirdle Clutterbuck) and then coming up with 26 characters who… Continue reading

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Y is for You’ll Love This One (I hope!)…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 29, 2018 April 29, 2018 Uncategorized

…when I finish it. Which will be soon! Stay tuned! Continue reading

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T is for Taking My Time With This One

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018 Uncategorized

Or, Late Again! An A-to-Zer’s Dilemma   In other words, T is coming. Soon. Soonish. Probably before dawn. Certainly before U. Definitely after S, as that is in The Past. And I don’t personally have access to The Lighthouse’s time travel tech, which anyway doesn’t exist. Yet. Probably. Stay tuned!… Continue reading

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L is for Late (sorry!)

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 13, 2018 April 13, 2018 Uncategorized

Hello, fellow A-to-Zers! Um, we at Atherton’s Magic Vapour (and by “we,” what I mean is, “I”) apologize for the delay. L (a real L) is coming. But it probably won’t come before my local midnight. On the plus side: there will be maps! So stay tuned! Maps=Splendor, Total Excitement!… Continue reading

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To My Subscribers

  By Melanie Atherton Allen November 18, 2017 November 18, 2017 Uncategorized

Dear (Non-WordPress) Subscribers,  We at Atherton’s Magic Vapour are very sorry, but we have somehow messed up our Subscription list. We actually know exactly what we did, but we do not wish to be tedious, and the subject bores us intensely. We suspect it would be even more tedious for… Continue reading

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Occult Detective Quarterly

  By Melanie Atherton Allen March 27, 2017 April 19, 2017 Uncategorized, Writing

A story of mine will be appearing in an upcoming issue of Occult Detective Quarterly.  Perhaps unsurprisingly, the story features an Occult Detective (one Simon Wake).  My piece will probably be in issue 3 or 4. About ODQ Occult Detective Quarterly #1 is lots of fun.  I recommend it highly… Continue reading

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Freestyle Writing Challenge

  By Melanie Atherton Allen June 21, 2015 June 21, 2015 Flash Fiction, Uncategorized, Writing

The remarkable Hannah Givens, comic-book savant and all-round awesome person, has done me the honor of including me in a Freestyle Writing Challenge.  The rules are below.  My prompt was as follows: Write a scene of inconvenient emotion Here is my response: Mirth In Funeral  It was perfect funeral weather.… Continue reading

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The Witch

  By Melanie Atherton Allen April 28, 2015 April 29, 2015 A To Z April Challenge 2015, Blogging A to Z, Mystery, Uncategorized

W is for Witch. Mrs. Goodkind is a witch.  She lives in a cottage in Yeoman’s Woods. December 30th Old Mrs. Goodkind looked towards her cottage door. She knew that quite soon she would have a visitor, though the identity of that visitor was unknown to her. She was, she… Continue reading

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Yet Another Spam Message That Utterly Defies Explanation…

  By Melanie Atherton Allen July 31, 2014 July 31, 2014 Atherton Reads Her Spam Mail, spam, Uncategorized

…And this one also has a lot of narrative power. I swear, these messages are getting closer and closer to making actual sense. Here is the full text of the message, sent by one “Hermes Birkin bags Cheap,” in response to my post E Is For… Evidence: “Night pupil issued… Continue reading

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