Anastasia's Midnight Song

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>St Petersburg 1917</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>French Huguenot Anastasia believes working in one of Sinai's mirror factories will allow her to trap the imaginary Arctic Fox which lives in her womb.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meanwhile Jack escapes from London and travels to Sinai to avoid being conscripted to fight in the trenches. His strange imaginings do little to alleviate his feelings of cowardice.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When they meet Jack is seized with a fierce desire to possess her and nothing can diminish his obsessive urge to be noticed by her despite her obvious disgust of his crude advances.  </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their journeys twist together like a fugue filled with fantastical delays as they both fail to accomplish what they set out to do. On a quest for moral truths and unable to escape the consequences of their false beliefs they relentlessly approach the acute phase of their schizophrenia.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anastasia's Midnight Song </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a revelatory hallucinatory account of the growing insanity of two young people who happen to be in the same place at the same time.</span></p><p><br></p>