Eva Golemina and the Calvert Street Sorceress

By Gary Lester

In the early 20th Century Eva Golemina, the disembodied brain of a woman living in a steam-powered simulacrum, travels across the Atlantic seeking a peaceful new life in Baltimore — only to encounter a mysterious man in a black suit and overcoat who casts no reflections . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Channel 37 Publications
• Release date: May 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9781452469409

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Eva Golemina and the Calvert Street Sorceress

by Gary Lester

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Eva Golemina and the Calvert Street Sorceress

Copyright 2012 by Gary Lester

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 1

Eva Golemina surveyed her new apartment. The movers were gone, leaving numerous boxes strewn throughout the domicile. She looked at the work ahead of her.

In the center of the room sat her chair. The chair was well-reinforced to support her 375 pound body. Not that she was overly large; indeed she appeared as a normal woman. Her excess weight was primarily caused by the steel frame that supported the small boiler that powered her.

In the seven scant years since the War to End all Wars her life changed dramatically. Before the war, she lived a simple life tending her garden in a small suburb in London. Her husband, Sir Arthur Leviticus Tomlinson, the noted engineer, worked with the RAF developing numerous devices for those ungainly flying machines.

The patents he owned made them more than comfortable and looking forward to a pleasant retirement in the country somewhere. Yet, within a month of the war’s end, Eva – formerly Claire Rebecca Tomlinson was struck with a fatal disease. The disease slowly drained Claire and left her husband in a state of extreme anxiousness.

Being an engineer, he couldn’t grasp the fact that some things were not repairable. He began researching ways to heal, if not to repair her. His research took him to places such as France to visit notable scientists such as Madame Curie. He visited Prague to visit rumors of the magical being, the Golem of Prague. In his absence, he left Claire in the hands of the finest doctors that money could buy. The royalties from the patents paid for it all.

He at last returned, with a gleam in his eye and handwritten plans. He left early to test his ideas and stayed well into late evenings. At last one day he burst in her sickroom with great excitement.

Claire, you have to come with me. There is something I must show you, was all he said.

Thought the disease greatly weakened her, she knew that look and that there was no denying him. Leaning on his arm, she was lead to his private workroom in one of the annex buildings on the property.

Once in the workroom, he turned on the lights. On his worktable was a large object covered with a cloth.

"Before I do any more work on this, I wish to show you my