Positively Shocking

By Tee Morris

Spring, 1893

Constance Magee is not a street urchin, not a thief, not a lost soul in the street of London. She is a girl surviving Her Majesty’s Empire one day at a time, nursing a sense of right and wrong, And sometimes, that sense doesn’t always see eye-to-eye with the law. After being jailed for her latest stand against injustice, Constance braced herself for a long stay in Newgate. Today, though, she is extended an unexpected opportunity from a strange fellow named Doctor Sound...

Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (Phoenix Rising / Das Zeichen des Phönix, and the Janus Affair / Die Janus-Affäre) by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ImagineThat Studios
• Release date: Aug 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301009572

Tee Morris

While Tee Morris began his writing career with Dragon Moon Press's 2002 historical epic fantasy Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana, it is his podcast of that book and works such as Podcasting for Dummies and All a Twitter that have earned him the distinction as one of the pioneers of social media. With Phoenix Rising, Tee returns to where he prefers to be—his imagination. When he is not there, Tee lives in the Washington, D.C. area with his five cats and one daughter, all of whom have him very well-trained.

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Positively Shocking

Positively Shocking

TEE MORRIS

Published by Imagine That! Studios 2013

Copyright © 2013 by Tee Morris

Interior Layout by Imagine That! Studios

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This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead is purely coincidental. Any actual places, products or events mentioned are used in a purely fictitious manner.

Also from Tee

The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series (with Pip Ballantine)

Phoenix Rising

The Janus Affair

Dawn’s Early Light

The Diamond Conspiracy

The Ghost Rebellion

Operation Endgame

Verity Fitzroy and the Ministry Seven

The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh

The Mystery of Emerald Flame

The Secret of the Monkey God

Steampunk Anthologies

The Books and Braun Dossier

Magical Mechanications

Ministry Protocol: Thrilling Tales from the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences

Spring, 1893

London, England

Constance tapped her fingers against the wooden table, trying not to allow her eyes to scrutinize the room again. It was no different than it had been five minutes ago. And it had not changed in the five minutes before then. Nor the previous five minutes to before that either.

She was still surrounded by the skill of a master mason worker, with the only light entering the room from the high barred windows well out of her reach. Then there was her table, well worn and smooth. The stool she sat upon had not changed in its size nor had