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Settings: Edwardian Times

Vorticist Curse

Curses! - Tales of Nightmare and Revenge

by Sedley Proctor

BLAST!

setting:	Edwardian Times
genres:	humour, word games
themes:	cursing, joking, vendetta, vorticism
from:	Curses! - Tales of Nightmare and Revenge by Sedley Proctor

Genres

academic adventure anecdote animals art world beat style black humour childhood children's adventure Christmas comic erotic comic grotesque comic horror coming of age cricket crime crime passionel dialogue Egyptian ex-pat adventure expressionist fable families family family saga fan fiction fantasy flash fiction flash paragraph food ghost ghost story grotesque historical historical fantasy holiday holiday romance horror humour Italian joke literary London memoir modernist morality tale mystery occasional poem old age outsider pastiche revenge romance satire sketch slapstick surrealism symbolist travel word games

Themes

addiction affairs alcohol arrows assignations banter bars betrayal blindness bombast boyfriends and girlfriends brothers Casanova crime cruelty cursing dating deception drinking culture drugs envy families family life fate fathers female bonding football friendship gnomes homelessness hotels husbands and wives Italian culture Italian customs jealousy joking loneliness love affairs male bonding mothers and sons neighbours nightmare nostalgia old age petty crime poverty school life sex shame shapeshifter sisters slavery sons strawberries teasing tom girl tragedy truancy vendetta wolves

Settings

1984 Totalitarian State 2000 BC London Basin 3000 BC Alps Alaska 2063 Ancient Rome Anywhere Anytime Anywhere Now Avernia Future Biblical Times Britain - Australia Now Britain Now Cairo Now Canadian Christmas Cannes Now Casanova Venice Contemporary Art Dante's Italy Dorset Now Dynastic China Edwardian Europe Edwardian Times Egypt Egypt Now Eighties Belfast Eighties Home Counties Eighties London Eighties Southern Italy Eighties Texas Fairyland Fascist Italy France Now French Riviera Now Holland Now Home Counties Hotel Anywhere Interior Italy Now Kipling's India Las Vegas Now Leipzig Now London 2000s London Now Magic Garden Neverland Mao's China Neverland Nineteenth Century Prussia Nineties America Nineties Europe Nineties London Oxford Christmas Now Oxford Now Paris Now Post-war Britain Renaissance Castle Seventies Childhood Seventies England Seventies Home Counties Southern Italy Now Test Cricket Now Thirties Chicago

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