Railroads and telegraph lines snaked across frontiers like long lines of stitches empires nibbled at the coasts of Africa cotton mills churned and hummed like open mouths, swallowing bent-backed workers and exhaling fibrous steam.īut other, older words-like chaos and revolution-still lingered in the margins. The world had just begun to whisper the word modern to itself, along with words like order and unfettered free trade. Miss Adelaide Lee Larson was born in 1866. The lineage and early life of Miss Adelaide Lee Larson-the opening of a door-the closing of a door-the changes wrought on the soul of a young girl Read on for a peek through this ‘ tiny leather-bound Door with hinges made of glue and wax thread.’ Or, to meet January, the main protagonist of the story, read chapter one at the Orbit website. “ The following excerpt is taken from a book within the book, one that’s very. The Ten Thousand Doors of January is set in the 1900s and follows a young woman who discovers a mysterious book in a mansion sprawling with curiosities. She lives in Berea, Kentucky with her husband and son. In her spare time she works on her gloriously dilapidated house. Harrow worked as a part-time history adjunct and now is a full-time writer, with stories published in Shimmer and Strange Horizons. The following is excerpted from the novel The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E.
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