Carousel: A Whyborne & Griffin Short Story
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Note: “Carousel” first appeared in the anthology Another Place in Time. It takes place between the events of Stormhaven and Necropolis.
When a child goes missing in Widdershins, ex-Pinkerton detective Griffin Flaherty fears sinister forces are at work in the town. Together, he and his lover Percival Endicott Whyborne must track down the child and put an end to a murderous plot, before any more young souls are lost.
Genre: m/m paranormal romance short story.
Jordan L. Hawk
Jordan L. Hawk is a trans author from North Carolina. Childhood tales of mountain ghosts and mysterious creatures gave him a life-long love of things that go bump in the night. When he isn’t writing, he brews his own beer and tries to keep the cats from destroying the house. His best-selling Whyborne & Griffin series (beginning with Widdershins) can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5short story where Whyborne & Griffin save a Child from the consequences of having hid wish come true
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pretty short of course, but it made me smile at points.
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Carousel - Jordan L. Hawk
Carousel
(A Whyborne & Griffin short story)
Jordan L. Hawk
Carousel © 2014 Jordan L. Hawk
ISBN: 978-1-941230-13-8
All rights reserved.
Cover art © 2016 Lou Harper
SMASHWORDS EDITION
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Edited by Annetta Ribken and Dana Trejo
Carousel
first appeared in Another Place in Time, © 2014 by Boys in Our Books.
Author’s Note: Carousel
takes place between the events of Stormhaven and Necropolis.
I.
Late on a Sunday afternoon, I sat in the study, afraid to write a letter.
It shouldn’t have been such a hard task. Letters were simple things, weren’t they? I wrote a handful a week: to my cousin Ruth, to friends out west, to clients. At one time I’d written faithfully to my adoptive parents back in Kansas and received their letters in return.
Two months had passed now with no word from them. Ever since Pa insisted I choose either my lover or my family.
Griffin?
asked the man in question from his chair near the fire. Is everything all right? You seem pensive.
I blinked out of my fog and turned my gaze away from the blank piece of paper and to him. Percival Endicott Whyborne, who turned his back on the family fortune to pursue scholarship. His dark hair stood up in short spikes, tamable only by large quantities of macassar oil, and then only temporarily. He was startlingly tall at over six feet, but his slender build gave the impression he was composed mainly of long limbs and awkward angles. Our marmalade cat, Saul, sprawled over Whyborne’s lap, purring loudly enough to hear across the room.
The rest of the world, with a few exceptions, thought Whyborne my good friend and boarder, rather than my lover of almost a year. Although lover
seemed hopelessly inadequate to encompass everything he meant to me.
He had been my rock through so much already; there was no question I could rely on him now. I’ve been considering whether I should attempt to find my brothers,
I said.
Whyborne’s eyes grew shadowed. He knew my history. My brothers and I were adopted at separate stops on the orphan train, all