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Blossoms that Coil and Decay [MultiFormat]
eBook by David Langford
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: A feverish stew of decadence and fin-de-siecle corruption, with epigrams swapped at the Cafe Royal, walk-on parts for Wilde, Whistler, Swinburne and many more, all through the magic of virtual reality....
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Interzone 57, 1992
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2004
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [50 KB], eReader (PDB) [23 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [9 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [9 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [62 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [82 KB], hiebook (KML) [30 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [36 KB], iSilo (PDB) [8 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [10 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [38 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [17 KB]
Words: 2447
Reading time: 6-9 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
After the usual kind of cloudy transition, Walter Ledgett found himself standing in what could only be the Café Royal.
Tobacco-smoke rose everywhere like incense towards the high ceiling of the domino room. There were gilded pillars, cliffs of crimson velvet, tall mirrored panels that threw the light a little wearily back and forth through the fumes. Ledgett peered with suspicion into the nearest mirror, feeling there was something lacking: himself. An unreflective man. No, there he was after all, but there had surely been a delay. And the shadows that brooded in the corners or huddled under the tables where dominoes clicked against marble ... were they not a trifle too black and absolute? He made a mental note. He was, after all, a critic.
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