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The Veil

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Louisa Krause
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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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I love time travel stories and this one was an original setting and method of time travel. A decent, comical story (was it supposed to be funny? It made me laugh out loud a few times!).

Narration: I didn’t like it. It has confirmed to me that I’m not al that keen on American narrators (I didn’t realise the story took place in USA) and the English accent of Nathaniel was abysmal, darling. I also don’t like when female narrators do a male voice by speaking really gruffly, deeply and in monotone, as it was fine here.

Time travel romance - dodgy English accent!

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Really thought it was going to end differently and I was going to hate it, but then the author twisted it about in the last minutes and made what could have been depressing and corny into something inspiring. Good work!

Excellent

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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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quite an original idea, really enjoyed it, before short story before bed. would like to hear more from Rachel and very well narrated

great

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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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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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Nothing happens. The narration is good, but thus short story is more of an unsubstantiated idea.

Boring

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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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