We Live Without a Future and other stories

<p>Seven queer stories about our favourite literary figures. Lord Byron encounters a gorgeous ghost in Verona. An author seeks to share her truths. Feste discusses love and revenge. Oscar Wilde discovers more than he expected in a deep Colorado mine. La Belle Dame sans Merci shares her perspective. An engineer is astonished to find a lost manuscript in an old cellar. While Virginia Woolf contemplates peace during another world war...</p><p></p><p><strong>In Fair Verona</strong></p><p>Adventures naturally befall Lord Byron while he travels through Europe but all are deliciously surpassed when he is visited by an apparition in the book-lined parlour of an old palazzo in Verona.</p><p></p><p><strong>Verity</strong></p><p>Much has changed since Verity and her beloved Stella died...</p><p></p><p><strong>In a Dark House</strong></p><p>Couples coalesce in happiness while the lone ones are cast adrift... Feste is glad to see the back of Sir Andrew is tempted to follow Antonio a man of his own nature - but surprises even himself when instead he starts to search for the vengeful Malvolio.</p><p></p><p><strong>Magic Casements</strong></p><p>Oscar Wilde is touring North America lecturing on aesthetics - so why wouldn't the Poet of Beauty and Truth be much on his mind?</p><p></p><p><strong>Chooser of the Slain</strong></p><p>Lily has a mission which has been harshly and unjustly characterised.</p><p></p><p><strong>Misplaced</strong></p><p>Sam is an engineer indulging her dreams of archaeology... What buried treasure does she discover while Reading Train Station is being redeveloped?</p><p></p><p><strong>We Live Without a Future</strong></p><p>With their home in London destroyed in the Blitz Leonard and Virginia Woolf find what peace they can in a village near the Sussex coast. But with German and British planes grinding overhead and the looming threat of a Nazi invasion there is never enough peace to be had. There is never enough.</p>