London in Lockdown

A story for Halloween, written in 2020Locked down on my own in the East End of London, spending my time walking, alone, around the deserted City, I started thinking about all the ghosts who must haunt the empty buildings, and how they must be getting lonely too.I started wondering how safe it might be to be the lone living person among all these dead. And then I began to think that perhaps I had done enough walking for one day and maybe I'd better go home.Go home and, as it turned out, start writing this storyThe music is 'Thinking Music' by Kevin MacLeod, from Incompetech:https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4522-thinking-musicSound effects from Freesound (https://freesound.org/people/redskeli... klankbeeld, Mohammad Reza Mozaffari, samwd, ChazzRavenelle, craigsmith, Nakhas, winsx87Photos from Unsplash(https://unsplash.com/collections/7202...)Mark Hang Fung So, Michelen Studios, Anne Nygård, Alex Bierwagen, Charl Folscher,Jan Romero, Annie Spratt, Rumman Amin, Egor Myznik, Étienne Godiard, Daniel van den Berg,Arturo Ruiz, Guillaume Techer, Susan Yin, Simon Rae, Roman Fox, Aj Alao, Lucas Benjamin, nrd,Morgan Vander Hart, Quinton Coetzee, Marcus Loke, Chris Greenhow, Guido Coppa, Dimitry Anikin, Sebastian Le Derout, John Cameron, Nabeel Saghir, Sebastian Pichler, Leif Niemczik, Simon Mumenthaler, Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Merry and magical stories that take Christmas seriously (or as seriously as it should be taken, which is both not at all and entirely too much). 24 episodes of a new Christmas story for adults read aloud every December - an audiobook advent calendar.There are already many different stories. There’s the unlikely steampunk Adventure Calendar of Mr Timothy Hope, the story of the little girl Lydia, her family and friends and the Apartment Store, the madcap murder mystery of The Deadvent Calendar, the report of an harassed government wizard on An All Too Magical Christmas, the strange experiences of Mr Benedict Nail among The Ghosts of Christmas Presents. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.