Now or Thereabouts (short story)

Now or Thereabouts was a 2011 short story written by Blair Bidmead and released in the Faction Paradox series anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts.

Summary
Competing in a tense game-show-style "media ritual", Little Sister Ceol seeks to become the chosen candidate initiated into the Faction and avoid the terrible fate that awaits those who fail, all the while being haunted by the Priest with the exploding glass face.

Plot
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Characters

 * Little Sister Ceol
 * Godfather Starch
 * Father Heed
 * Mother Anamnesis
 * Little Brother Gull
 * Little Sister Penelope
 * Little Brother Fleece
 * Little Brother Dominic
 * Maria
 * Ryan
 * The war veteran
 * The drunk man
 * The singing man

Worldbuilding

 * The herdsmen of Klasterhaus live in the Great Prairie.

Continuity
to be added