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“Talking horses—better, but they were so gloomy! She kept one though, a racehorse too charmingly sardonic to eradicate.”

The racehorse who spoke to Franklin!

“If she hadn't met her prince then her life might have turned out differently (or not). The Void took Prince Kenneth and King Harold at the same time on a walkabout, so Prince Alfie became King, after all. If their love hadn't been forbidden, she would have been Queen Skylar.”

The spare prince and a movie star actress?

Connie playing the long game for Franklin honestly it’s quite impressive how they conned him into their game of clue: “Mr. Kingshott in the library with a dagger. Not a dagger exactly but a small, sharp knife, very like the one Franklin had used earlier to slice a lemon for Mrs. Kingshott.”

It’s like Toy Story but from Sid’s toys and the girl dies… I didn’t expect so much darkness from these stories

Short stories end right when you want them to keep going

“The book fell from her mother's hand on to the grass, and she never finished reading it, which was a pity as she would have learnt something that would have prevented something dreadful from happening to their family in the near future.”

And the au pair named Aoife asking for the baby

“Be careful with my heart”

Watches her own dissection/autopsy

Unlucky until we are lucky (depending how you see the presence of talking animals)

That was a horrifying first story

“Why had the birds been spared? The elderly neighbour was spread-eagled on the path, her little terrier lying beside her, as faithful in death as he had been in life. Burying the dead was going to be a problem, Genevieve thought.”

I can see why one woman will never be found outside again