Inside the safe is:
£100
Watch
List of everyone I ever loved
Several previously unrevealed fears
Passport
Book of passwords
Keys to several long lost doors
And a map to an undisclosed location
Go ahead. Try all you like. If you can open it, they’re yours.
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Notes:
1. Written on March 17th, 2023
__________The kittens were absolutely not supposed to be in there.
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Notes:
1. Written on October 27th, 2022
__________They charge by the word now down at the pub. As the evening drags on a silence like no other descends. Not even the dogs dare bark.
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Notes:
1. Written on October 14th, 2022
__________I saw the most amazing thing. No, I will not tell you what it was.
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Notes:
1. Written on May 5th, 2022
__________#1: Stephen King cannot spell the word “succinct”. Luckily he has an editor who can. (The editor was fired in 1989.)
#2: Though he never used it in any of his books, MR James’s favourite English word was “velveteen”, describing it in private as “sensuous, seductive.”
#3: Angela Carter modified her typewriter so that the i’s were dotted with lovehearts.
#4: Frank Herbert was addicted to mulberries to such an extent people often thought he was wearing lipstick.
#5: Vladimir Nabakov found England so bewildering he later described it as a “spacious and pretentious place with maudlin [figures] in various postures and states of enchantment amid a medley of pallid animals, dryads and trees.”
#6: HP Lovecraft was an absolute fool.
#7: Jules Verne was scared of brass bands (though he was quite fond of the sound of bells).
#8: Neil Gaiman once got lost in Soho. He was never seen again.
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Notes:
1. Written on the 24th August, 2022
2. Every fact is 100% true.