Any errors or oversights are mine alone.
About the Author
KATE HEARTFIELD is a former newspaper editor and columnist in Ottawa, Canada. Her novel Armed in Her Fashion (ChiZine Publications) was published in 2018, as was her interactive novel The Road to Canterbury (Choice of Games). Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies, including Strange Horizons and Lackington’s. Her website is heartfieldfiction.com and she tweets at @kateheartfield.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
CHAPTER ONE: Concerning a Robbery and What Comes After
CHAPTER TWO: In Which the Wrong Mistress Is Persuaded
CHAPTER THREE: Companions; or, How Alice Is Transformed
CHAPTER FOUR: On the Nuclear Option, with Cocktails
CHAPTER FIVE: In Which Mr. Grigson Gives His Account
CHAPTER SIX: By Which It Will Appear That Grace Is Uneasy
CHAPTER SEVEN: Alice Investigates, with Results That Will Hereinafter Appear
CHAPTER EIGHT: A Quarrel Ends in Silence
CHAPTER NINE: A Quarrel Ends in Adventure
CHAPTER TEN: Of Time and Space, with Four Horses
CHAPTER ELEVEN: How the Earl Is Rescued
CHAPTER TWELVE: Shit Gets Weird; or, a Consequential Encounter
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: In Which Alice Is Discombobulated
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: On the Limits of Patience
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: A Complication Arises
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Concerning the Course of History; with Revelations
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: On a Battlefield; and in a Ballroom
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: A Death Is Averted, by Means of Which Prudence Makes Her Case
CHAPTER NINETEEN: In Which Jane Is Given a Commission
CHAPTER TWENTY: In Which Some People Vanish
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: Concerning a Rescue and What Comes Before
The Most Recent Draft of History
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Kate Heartfield
Copyright Page
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novella are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ALICE PAYNE ARRIVES
Copyright © 2018 by Kate Heartfield
All rights reserved.
Cover art by Cliff Nielsen
Cover design by Christine Foltzer
Edited by Lee Harris
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