Lord Peter Wimsey drabble: "Vanes"
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:23 am
Here is the drabble Antosha won from me. It's a crossover.
Vanes
A 90th birthday party, thought Harriet, is the sort of experience designed to make you wish you'd died earlier. It had nothing to do with her; the Duke, at 75, was inviting the assembly to go skydiving. She imagined what Peter would say, and that made it worse.
One girl, great-granddaughter of her cousin Virgil, skirted the party as if from the other side of a wire fence. Harriet thought she recognized the look.
"Tell me, Romilda," Harriet asked in a near-whisper. "Are you a writer?"
"No, a witch," said the girl with a straight face.
"Is there a difference?"
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Vanes
A 90th birthday party, thought Harriet, is the sort of experience designed to make you wish you'd died earlier. It had nothing to do with her; the Duke, at 75, was inviting the assembly to go skydiving. She imagined what Peter would say, and that made it worse.
One girl, great-granddaughter of her cousin Virgil, skirted the party as if from the other side of a wire fence. Harriet thought she recognized the look.
"Tell me, Romilda," Harriet asked in a near-whisper. "Are you a writer?"
"No, a witch," said the girl with a straight face.
"Is there a difference?"
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