Room 2D

Photo-story from Janus 103 featuring the lovely Vida Garman Did it happen? Sometimes, in the dark early hours, Dulcie found herself wondering. For now, six weeks afterwards, what she had been called upon to undergo on that unforgettable afternoon was etched into her mind like the memory of a vivid dream, stark and harsh, yet magical too. Several times since then she had retraced her steps to the location where the events had taken place, but that seemingly phantom vault and its mysterious visitants could not be found. Yet her life had undoubtedly changed for the better since her appearance before the two mysterious members of the Induction Board. The premium bonds win, the unexpected upgrading at work, strange confluences of change in her job and private life — all suggested that some occult force had been set to work in her favour. She wears white training kit as if for gym at school, is running hard across an echoey indoor v...

Story from Janus 56 by Richard Manton The romance of Leon and his two young mistresses ran the full course of the Cirque Eden’s summer season at Cabourg, in the last days of the  belle époque . Against a sea that was millpond-smooth, the white caps of the tents rose among the trees of the Parc des Princes. Throughout the well-kept streets of the fashionable resort the gaudy posters were filled by trumpets and horses, bare-legged girls and Bengal tigers. All day the summer tide lay glittering and languid beyond the sands. At dusk the coloured lamps of the promenade and the windows of the Grand Hotel shimmered and flickered like Aladdin’s treasure on the whispering water. From the white steam-yachts anchored in a line, a beat of music and the laughter of dinner parties carried to the esplanade, where the wives of brokers and lawyers paraded in dresses of butterfly elegance. At night the Parc des Princes belonged to...