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Sally has recently left an unfulfilling job to volunteer at a living history museum, where she is assigned to the Death House. Every day, she dons Victorian mourning garb and describes traditional funeral services to tourists. It sounds depressing as hell, but for Sally, it’s less depressing than her tepid marriage to her childhood sweetheart.

This becomes all too clear when she accidentally travels through time and space to a liminal world where the ghosts of the living history museum haunt its grounds. There, she meets and falls hard for Victorian-era pretty boy Nathaniel. Their heady, romantic encounters douse Sally in the sad reality that her marriage is anything but and leave her tempted to join Nathaniel permanently in his realm.

Is Sally’s marriage literally a fate worse than death, or is there another way altogether?

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The story was unidimensional and naive. I felt irritated by the way the writer over simplified every aspect of the character's life and relationships.
Narration was well done.

Silly

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it is a fun little short story with a very interesting hook. different than I thought it would be

Behind the veil

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Ok for a short story, overtly stupid heroine spoils a good idea that a more independent "spirit" would have enhanced.

Opaque in parts.

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A madcap escaping a dead marriage and rebounding into marrying a Victorian spirit with charming mess of a protagonist.

Folx, we gotta know our worth. We are all worth so much more than a man-shaped lump who occasionally slaps our arse or a handsome dead wifeguy who charmingly wants us to death do us betroth.

Fun prose and a performance from Louisa Krause that really makes the words sing. It's just a bit too short and aimless to enjoy more than this. Definitely intrigued to read more of the author and see what else the narrator has worked on!

Strange Short Story Narrated Wonderfully

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It wasn’t completely awful but the English accent was pretty bad! They also fell in love ridiculously fast and her husband just sounded like a typical douchebag stereotype which kind of didn’t explain how she would have stayed with him and married him in the first place, he didn’t start off as a better person and had just grown to be this, he had always been it. The idea was pretty good but I think it might have been better going in a different direction maybe? Like maybe more like T Kingfisher’s ‘The Hollow Places’ kind of thing, where the death place was more than just a background setting that didn’t really become a 3d place in the story and it was also so short that nothing really happened to show why she would think they were in love or their life together being more than just a few minutes here and there before she had to go and they just kissed and nothing else ever happened!

Not the best

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