Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom Condition:Good and playfulness

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Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom Condition:Good and playfulnessFaber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Lips the colour of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like 'guilt, and guilt, and guilt': these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 'But what is the ninth kingdom?' she asks a kind seeming lady in her carriage. 'It is the kingdom