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• Author: Violet Fenn
• Language: English
• Genre: Alternative History
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Fish Are Friends, Not Food
My phone rang just as I was balancing precariously on a ladder that
had been wedged into place by a table that was slowly sliding
across the floor. I was also being berated by my best friend Izzy for having
no vision when it came to interior design. She had unilaterally decided that
Flora’s, the Harrington Street coffee shop that I owned and lived above,
needed to be ‘brighter and more welcoming’, and I hadn’t had the heart to
stop her. “Red and pink absolutely works together, so you can wipe that
look off your face,” had been the sum total of our discussions, before she’d
put a ‘closed for refurbishment’ sign in the window and spent two days
dressed in a boiler suit, painting anything that stayed still long enough.

I
actually thought it was great, but kept a begrudging expression on my face
because Izzy loves it when she thinks she’s got one over on me. So now I
was hanging gigantic Roy Lichtenstein prints on the headache-inducing
walls, while Izzy shouted instructions. I’d have ignored the call, but my
phone was playing The Final Countdown by Europe, which signified it was
either Eadric or Nikolaus. Both were perfectly capable of using modern
technology but avoided it as much as possible on account of how one of
them was two hundred years old and the other—well, let’s just say that
Eadric wrote some of the side notes in the original Domesday Book and
leave it at that. Dropping the box of picture nails to the floor, I did my best
to ignore Izzy’s indignant squeaking as I fished the phone out of my pocket.
I nearly fell off the ladder as I hit ‘accept’ on the screen, and ended up
clambering down the freshly painted wall like a cockroach, hoping no one
was walking past the windows to see it.

“If you don’t come and do something with this repulsive pet of yours, I
swear to the gods, I will fillet and shred her and make a nice kedgeree.”
I sighed. “Morning Nik,” I said, heading behind the counter. Flora’s was
due to open in an hour and the bakery order hadn’t yet been put into the
display units. I started pulling warm pastries out of boxes and arranging
them on the counter. The almond croissants smelled like heaven, and I
cursed the fact I could no longer eat human food. Izzy banged her way
through to the staff room as I flipped the coffee machine on.

At least
espresso was still an option. “Daisy’s a wild creature,” I pointed out, “not a
pet. I can’t be responsible for her behaviour and you know that.”
“Lilith,” he said, “she climbed in through the bloody window. Then she
dumped a pike on Eadric’s desk. It was still flapping.” I could hear noises
behind him that suggested the piscine incident was still ongoing.

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