The Village of No-Place
The Prologue of a Small, Gothic, Series
Hello, everyone! Happy Monday.
Recently, I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a series of short stories, set in a village. It could be argued to be a deliberately stereotypical village story, save for the exploration of certain themes like Gothicism and Romanticism. Does this float your boat? Read on! I’ll include a little blurb:
Courtney de Ville (avid gardener, Tolkien-disliker, non-fiction acolyte, and avid Spinozan) grows sick of her urban living, and one day accidentally enters the Village of No-Place. There she sets up a living, as a gardener and curator of the local library. However, strange occurrences start happening in No-Place, and the nights are filled with odd, frightening noises. Can Courtney team up with (devout Christian, Tolkien-lover, non-fiction hater) Constable Thackeray to figure out the mysteries plaguing their little village?
Prologue: The Village of No-Place
Every so often, Courtney Ellen de Ville, otherwise known as Court to her neighbours and as ‘The Spinozan’ to her professors, found herself thinking about her life as it should have been, in contradiction to what it currently was.
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