My Uncommonly Peculiar Encounters with The Leevers of North Hillpeste

By Dennis Bauer

Fine dining, steampunk, death and sherry... with a smattering of Shakespeare thrown in for good measure. It all unfolds in the Victorian-era city of Ephinburg where Buckminster Solo - the teleporting, brown-nosing facilities manager for a mad science lab - has a tale to tell: It involves a lost empire, an emotionally unstable demigod and the vital importance of coleslaw to acts of espionage. If Mr. Solo isn't very careful, it might also involve a brutal, and quite fatal, beating.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dennis Bauer
• Release date: Jan 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370424023

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My Uncommonly Peculiar Encounters with

The Leevers of North Hillpeste

by Buckminster Solo

(Presented by Dennis Bauer)

Copyright 2017 Dennis Bauer

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Table of Contents

Beginning: The Solo Memorandum

Part 1 – The Leevers and the Helborn Circle

Part 2 – Lunch with the Leevers

Part 3 – The Leevers and the Loyal Soldier

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MEMORANDUM

April 17, 1888

To:

Mr. Wilton Badgely-Phipps

Vice President, Irregular Research and Logistics

Scientific Instrument Manufacturing Company

London

From:

Mr. Buckminster Solo

Facilities Manager

SIMCo Biologics Institute

Shockley Hall

Ephinburg

REPORT NO.: 00000001-01

EVENTS OF NOTE

Dear Mr. Badgely-Phipps;

Allow me to start by congratulating you on becoming SIMCo’s newest Vice President and head of our department. Consider this first report the beginning of what I’m sure will be many productive exchanges between your office in London and our newly-established division here on the Farsetland. I’ve no doubt that your advice and leadership, though remote, will prove invaluable as the staff and I continue to prepare this facility for the arrival of researchers and students.

As I’m sure you’ve been informed, there are a number of unique facets to our Shockley Hall operation. First, please note that I have been blessed with a most fantastical and convenient mode of transportation that requires neither horse nor wheel nor engine of any kind. Perhaps others have already informed you that I am able to will myself into the world-between-worlds and emerge, an instant later, at any distant location of my choosing. No matter how often I do it, it remains a curious sensation: My mind expands and I momentarily acquire awareness of the whole of creation—a broad awareness that soon refocuses on my desired destination and, in short order, I find myself there, exactly where I wish to be.

The origin of my remarkable gift is as unknown to me as it is to the handful of others I’ve met who share it. Speculation on this matter tends to drift into the realm of the mystic and often involves intercessions by