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    The Playwright's Woman
    The Playwright's Woman
    The Playwright's Woman
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    The Playwright's Woman

    By R. J. Creaney

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    In late Victorian London, playwright Kevin Francis Darley struggles with both poor reviews and writer’s block. He begins a dalliance with the mystical spirit absinthe and meets – and falls immediately in love with – an enigmatic young woman from his homeland. She inspires and enlivens him, but the man who knows Kevin better than any other cannot help but be wary of the profound and disturbing change that he sees in his friend.

    A Gothic short story; 5,400 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. J. Creaney
    Release dateJan 21, 2012
    ISBN9781465943606
    The Playwright's Woman
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    R. J. Creaney

    A hungry young writer; hoping to be the next [insert name of suitable fair-to-middling speculative fiction author here].

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      The Playwright's Woman - R. J. Creaney

      The Playwright’s Woman

      A short story by R. J. Creaney

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2012 R. J. Creaney

      Cover design by R. J. Creaney.

      ‘Aerofoil’ font created by Denise Chan. Textures by http://sirius-sdz.deviantart.com and CG Textures.

      http://rjcreaney.wordpress.com/

      * * *

      K.F. Darley

      34 Upper Cheyne Row,

      Chelsea,

      London,

      ENGLAND

      Dear Mother,

      I write this letter nomn It is with particular compunction that I write this letter. My latest play, The Innermost Chamber, has been truly ravaged in the news-papers. It pains me to see how they completely missed the subtle but biting satire and the social commentary of the piece, and I very much doubt that anyone noticed my homage to Beaumarchais! It is like Styx, Dammed all over again – I cannot tell which play of mine the critics seemed to detest more.

      The Times referred to it as a ‘three-hour long exercise in brazen affectation’. Roth from The Athenaeum thought that it was ‘decidedly lacking in freshness, and with a conspicuous over-reliance on outmoded theatrical conventions’. All of them suggested that relatively decent production values and acting were let down by a poor script. Some of the boys down at the Bishop’s Elbow had read a few more reviews, but declined to divulge me as to what they said – out of mercy, surely. Old James Grey (always a good chap) bought me an ale; I suppose because he felt sorry for me.

      Those reviewers are wind-bags, to a man. I went to terrible pains to write that play – it took me seven and a half months to pen altogether

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