It’s time to kick-off another week of fabulous story-telling in voice, brought to our virtual lives by the staff and volunteers at the Seanchai Library.
As always, all times SLT, and unless otherwise stated, events will be held on the Seanchai Library’s home on Imagination Island.
Sunday, May 10th: Tea-time at Baker Street
With Caledonia Skytower, Kaydon Oconnell and Corwyn Allen. This week: The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, first published in June, 1892 in The Strand Magazine, and which formed the final adventure to be included in the volume of tales The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
“As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my zero-point, I fancy. Read it!”
So laments Sherlock Holmes to John Watson over the breakfast table one cold morning, as to the general state of criminal affects and the degree to which challenges to his role as a consulting detective have dwindled in nature. The note he passes to Watson signifies, in his view, an introduction to yet another matter of triviality.
The note is from Violet Hunter, announcing her intent to call upon him right at that very time. While Holmes doubts her need will provide the challenge he desires, she does nevertheless bring to him a strange story, concerning a position as governess she has been offered with a family in Hampshire. For one thing, the position is offered at an annual salary almost twice her current level, and for another she is required to adhere to some rather odd provisos. As she has decided to take the position, Holmes suggests she sends him a telegram should she require his services.
Two weeks later, just such a telegram arrives…
Monday May 11th, 19:00: The Wizard of Karres Concludes
Gyro Muggins returns to the universe created by James H. Schmitz and given form through his 1949 novel, The Witches of Karres, as he continues reading the 2004 sequel, The Wizard of Karres, penned by by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Dave Freer, which reunites the reader with some familiar characters.
For Captain Pausert, it would seem that the old saying that no good deed ever goes unpunished should perhaps become the family motto. As a “reward” for thwarting the plans of the space pirates and eliminating the threat of the Worm World, Pausert is given the secret mission of stopping the nanite plague, a self-aware disease that lay waste to entire planets worlds.
Only someone has once convinced the Imperial Navy, unaware of his true mission, that Pausert is actually a wanted man. so it is that the Navy set out to hunt him down – and almost succeed, managing to cripple his ship. When Pausert discovers his funding has also been cut-off, leaving him without the means to get his ship repaired, he and his companions, Goth and the Leewit, the Witches of Karres, are forced to go undercover – and join a travelling circus.
After all, the show – and the mission – must go on, and thus the adventures continue.
Tuesday May 12th, Gone Fishin’
The Library will be closed on Tuesday, May 12th, while staff and volunteers take a bit of a break.
Wednesday May 13th
06:00: Forever Erma
Freda Frostbite and Trolly Trollop share the great humour and wit of everyday life as written by Erma Bombeck.
19:00: Christie’s Detectives
Join Caledonia Skytower as she presents short stories featuring Agatha Christe’s beloved detectives: Parker Pyne, Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Thursday May 14th
19:00: Prologues
With Shandon Loring.
21:00 Seanchai Late Night
With Finn Zeddmore.
Saturday May 16th, 12:00 Noon: Arabian Nights
Rub the magic lamp and make a wish… The Arabian Nights are folk tales full of genies, flying carpets, and daring adventures from Asia and the Middle East. Stories of far-out places and wild imagination that have captivated audiences for thousands of years.
With Shandon Loring at Seanchai Kitely (grid.kitely.com:8002/Inis Fada) and Seanchai InWorldz (https://inworldz/region/Sendalonde/217/144/28).
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