It’s time to kick-off another week of fabulous story-telling in Voice, brought to Second Life by the staff and volunteers at the Seanchai Library SL.
As always, all times SLT, and unless otherwise stated, events will be held on the Seanchai Library’s home on Imagination Island.
Sunday November 3rd, 13:30: Tea Time at Baker Street
Caledonia Skytower and Corwyn Allen read The Adventure of the Second Stain, from The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes and Watson received two very distinguished guests, who between them have a serious problem of some considerable import and delicacy.
None other than the Prime Minister, Lord Bellinger and the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Trelawney Hope, inform Holmes that a document has been stolen from Hope’s dispatch box, apparently while the latter was at Secretary of State’s home. The document, a letter from a foreign potentate, could result in very dire consequences – even war – if delivered to the wrongs hands.
Both the Prime Minister and Hope impress upon Holmes that such is the nature of the document that no-one in Hope’s household, not even his wife, knew of its presence prior to the letter vanishing when Hope himself was out of the house for a number of hours.
Taking the case, Holmes decides to call upon a number of spies who may have a vested interest in obtaining the letter on behalf of their governments, only to find one of them has been murdered. Deciding that this could not be mere coincidence, he finds the mystery deepening when Hope’s wife, Lady Hilda Trelawney Hope, arrives at his home, demanding to know the contents of the document, whilst also begging Holmes to tell her husband nothing of her visit…
Monday November 4th, 19:00: Science Fiction: The Planets Series
With Gyro Muggins.
Tuesday November 5th, 19:00: Treasure it the Heart of the Tanglewood
Faerie Maven-Pralou restarts her reading of Meredith Ann Pierce’s 2001 novel for young adults, which was unfortunately interrupted in August.
Hannah lives by the fearsome Tanglewood with a few talkative companion animals. She doesn’t age, and she has no memory of anything but this life of isolation. Once a month she plucks the flowers that grow from her head, a painful process in which “each yank made her whole scalp ache”, and brews them into a tea for the wizard who lives deep in the woods.
When Hannah falls in love with one of the many knights who seek the treasure of the book’s title, she starts to question the wizard’s motives, finding he has turned the knight into a fox.
Escaping the wizard’s manipulative grasp, Hannah sets out to find a cure for the knight, an adventure in which she discovers her own identity and the repercussions of some of her actions while under the control of the wizard.
Wednesday November 6th, 19:00: Fortunately, the Milk
“This is quite possibly the most exciting adventure ever to be written about milk since Tolstoy’s epic novel War and Milk. Also it has aliens, pirates, dinosaurs and wumpires in it (but not the handsome, misunderstood kind), also a never-adequately-explained-bowl-of-piranhas, not to mention a Volcano God.”
– Neil Gaiman.
What do you do when your wife is away on a business trip, you pop down to the corner shop to get a pint of milk for the kids’ breakfast, get caught in conversation and eventually return home to the accusing stares of your two children delivered across milk-less bowls of cereal? Do you admit that yes, in fact you had been gossiping, or do you opt for the safer way out and offer-up the most outlandish tale?
Guess which course of action this particular father took?
Join Caledonia Skytower as she reads Neil Gaiman’s delightful tale in the art of trolling the kids.
Thursday October 17th
16:00: A Leprechaun´s Tale
With Dubhna Rhiadra.
19:00: Weirder than Weird
If you love quirky and dark short stories but have become discouraged over the lack of originality these days then this book will renew your faith! “Weirder Than Weird” is full of dark and creepy tales as well as a few oddballs that Rod Sterling would probably feel right at home with. With Shandon Loring.
21:00: Seanchai Late Night
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Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 