eighteen ninety-one

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Parts 7
Time 7m

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"eighteen ninety-one" is the real declaration of anguish, a cry for a time not lived, a desire to escape the real world.
    
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    As the tale begins, there's a young lady who is at one of the many opium dens of the 1890s London, places that she names "houses of the holy". She glimpses her companions inside their illusions, but she is not immediately numbed, she seems to be far more alive than those alongside her. But, she starts a journey through time and finds herself in more than a thousand years back in time, inside a land she calls "the hidden island of mist" (the island of Avalon). Her downfall, her descent into madness, is solely her return to the real world.
    
    Was it all just the effect of the opium, a hallucination, or a signal, a message from a former life?All Rights Reserved

1800s arthurian fiction gothic gothichorror historical horror horror-thriller london medieval pennydreadful shortstory victorian

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"eighteen ninety-one" is the real declaration of anguish, a cry for a time not lived, a desire to escape the real world.
    
                                               ~
    
    As the tale begins, there's a young lady who is at one of the many opium dens of the 1890s London, places that she names "houses of the holy". She glimpses her companions inside their illusions, but she is not immediately numbed, she seems to be far more alive than those alongside her. But, she starts a journey through time and finds herself in more than a thousand years back in time, inside a land she calls "the hidden island of mist" (the island of Avalon). Her downfall, her descent into madness, is solely her return to the real world.
    
    Was it all just the effect of the opium, a hallucination, or a signal, a message from a former life?

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