Desiccated Water
Desiccated Water is a miniature St Mary's adventure built around Professor Rapson's latest scientific achievement: powdered water that requires water to make it work.
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Desiccated Water is a miniature St Mary's adventure built around Professor Rapson's latest scientific achievement: powdered water that requires water to make it work. The publisher's description of Long Story Short identifies the invention as the story's central joke.
That is enough to distinguish this piece from the institute's historical expeditions without revealing how the demonstration develops.
The site's view is that the premise suits readers who enjoy the absurdity of St Mary's research as much as its trips into the past. Scientific ingenuity and practical usefulness are conspicuously at odds before the story has even begun.
This is a brief comic extra to the novels, with Rapson's invention providing the focus.
You can find it in Long Story Short, where it shares a volume with six other St Mary's stories and Little Donkey from Frogmorton Farm. It is placed among the earlier institute extras, near My Name Is Markham.
For a print or ebook reading route, choose the collection and follow its contents list to this short piece.
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Where this fits
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- Lies, Damned Lies, and History · St Mary’s
- And the Rest Is History · St Mary’s
- Long Story Short · Standalone & collections
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- Shorter work in suggested sequence
- First published
- 2017 · publication source ↗
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