[It was the first time in seven months that the good professor had allowed his Net Vice to connect to the community unbeknownst. He was not a man of publicity, no, not in such a distant way; for he saw the network as a divider rather than an embracer. No matter the instance in which one speaks to one another physically they are parted and so much ( Read more... )

[Strangely, for those who may have been watching the feed is at first positively blank. Black, with a hint of subtle light, and the sound muffled-as though a cloth or some sort of cover had been carefully pressed over it in order to keep the contraption concealed for some unknown, secretive purpose.

A faraway voice can be heard, if slightly off in ( Read more... )

[A work of technological wonders, it seems the odd couple from the century of carriages and steam power have gotten themselves a bit of an 'upgrade'. Nothing too fantastical, but most definitely a step into the grand future. Why yes, the Victorians have achieved live cinematography!]

Does it work? Is it so? Ah ha! Look, Friend John! We have moved ( Read more... )

Let us pray, at the beginning of Lent for the Spirit of Repentance.

Alas, I know not personably of any other in this city who share this tradition which start this very day, the Holy Ash Wednesday.

From now till forty days past, we Roman Catholics fast in order to draw close to God ( Read more... )

[There's a soft murmuring of gold-leaflet read in an undertone. The professor is passive, if not elated, across two years it was more-so than he had ever felt as he whispered across the brassy instrument.]

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein ( Read more... )

( Private meeting After weeks of silence... )

[With a clatter of a heavy box dropping upon a desk, Abraham disturbs his wire-taper into audio output. His lyrical exclamation could be no more overjoyed than the heaven's singing themselves.]

Grundgütiger!

Every minute note und datum und marginalia is here, hahaa!

[Oh what humbled old laughter he harped. He could practically do a jig over ( Read more... )

[Hardly a proselyte to the Victorian Internet, Abraham, unseasoned to this system of things, tried his hand at monologue with the only tool at his command; his recently (as recent as 1890 was) acquired Printing Telegraph. It allowed for more lengthy diatribes, or whatever the sender fancied, so long as they had the funds to send. What fortune it ( Read more... )

[The midnight hour, and a sequacity of beeps filters through a crackling of static. Seemingly erratic at first, the sequence shows a keen articulation and anyone who knew such a sound would recognize it as Morse Code through a Telegraphed line. It was against his better judgment to have broken into this run-down flat. A sort of modern architecture ( Read more... )