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    The Secret: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story
    The Secret: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story
    The Secret: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story
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    The Secret: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story

    By Madeleine Holly-Rosing

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    Based on the Steampunk Victorian webcomic Boston Metaphysical Society, this story is a novelette based in that universe.

    In an alternative Boston of the 1800's, our world has developed along the lines of Steampunk technology, but with a modern twist. Here exists steam-driven rudimentary computers and electronics. And dirigibles rule the sky. But with it comes huge social and political schisms which shake the very foundations of society.

    The Story:
    Elizabeth Weldsmore has kept something secret from her father since she was nine years old. But when Samuel Hunter is employed as her bodyguard, she must chose between saving him or protecting herself. A steampunk paranormal romance.

    This story is included in the anthology, Boston Metaphysical Society: Prelude.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMadeleine Holly-Rosing
    Release dateOct 1, 2012
    ISBN9780988312111
    The Secret: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story
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    Madeleine Holly-Rosing

    A TV, feature film and comic book writer, Madeleine is the winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly for a PSA produced by Women In Film. She also won numerous awards while completing the UCLA MFA Program in Screenwriting. Having run a number of successful crowdfunding campaigns for her comic, Boston Metaphysical Society, Madeleine now teaches a crowdfunding class for independent creators at Pulp Fiction Books in Culver City as well as guest lecturing at Scriptwriters Network and Dreamworks. She has also published the book, Kickstarter for the Independent Creator. Boston Metaphysical Society webcomic is the recipient of an HONORABLE MENTION at the 2013 GEEKIE AWARDS and was nominated for BEST COMIC/GRAPHIC NOVEL at the 2014 GEEKIE AWARDS. The comic has also been nominated for a 2012 Airship Award as well as a 2013, 2014 and a 2015 Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Award. Her novella, Steampunk Rat, was also nominated for a 2013 Steampunk Chronicle Reader’s Choice Award. Other comic projects include the short story, The Scout which is part of The 4th Monkey anthology, The Sanctuary (The Edgar Allan Poe Chronicles anthology), The Marriage Counselor ( The Cthulhu is Hard to Spell anthology) and the upcoming The Airship Pirate which will be part of The Rum Row anthology. She is currently writing a four issue mini-series for SFC Comics/Evoluzione Publishing. She also has an anthology of short stories and novellas called Boston Metaphysical Society: Prelude (in print as well as eBook) based on the Boston Metaphysical Society universe available at all major online retailers. The Boston Metaphysical Society short story, Here Abide Monsters, is part of the Some Time Later anthology from Thinking Ink publishers. Formerly a nationally ranked epee fencer, she has competed nationally and internationally. She is an avid reader of comics, steampunk, science fiction, fantasy and historical military fiction.

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      The Secret - Madeleine Holly-Rosing

      The Secret

      A Boston Metaphysical Society Story

      By Madeleine Holly-Rosing

      Published By Madeleine Holly-Rosing at Smashwords

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      ELIZABETH LOOKED AT HER HANDS and knew they weren’t hers. Not young, not old, yet calloused and burned by something other than the work of a tradesmen or miner. The hands searched the trouser pockets, and she saw the clothes she wore were Middle District and well made. The nose wrinkled. Something stank. She soon realized it was rotting fish and seaweed. This time her vision had taken her to Boston Harbor and into the body of a man.

      Massive steam-powered ships anchored nearby lurched as the tide came in. Several fishing boats were heading out to sea. Their gear units labored as they hoisted the nets up over the stern. The breeze was just cool enough to be refreshing.

      The seagulls nesting in the upper reaches of the warehouses confirmed her suspicions. It was spring in this vision. A waning moon hung low in the sky. It had turned a light brown, which meant that the wind had shifted and smoke from the Southside was drifting over the city. It was a rare occurrence, but she knew the Great Houses of Beacon Hill would still be upset to have their sky sullied. But the wind was the wind and not even her father could control it.

      Her own body was buried under quilts in a soft feather bed in the past. It was an odd sensation. What was even stranger was being here, yet not. She often wondered if she would still exist in this time if something ever happened to her body. Would she be imprisoned in the person she inhabited? Could they co-exist, or would she die? Those thoughts always disturbed her.

      The man leaned against the wall of a warehouse to steady himself. The nausea faded as she got a sense of this body that was hers, yet wasn’t. Not that she could control it. That never happened. Elizabeth was along for the ride, though she felt everything the body she visited did. She wondered if this was what other Mediums experienced. Did they see only the future? If so, how far into it? Could they look into the past as well? She had heard talk among the servants that Mediums saw ghosts and could conjure up the spirits of the dead. She

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