Now or Thereabouts (short story)

Now or Thereabouts
Main character(s):	Ceol
Main setting:	London, 2010s Klasterhaus Eleven-Day Empire
Key crew
Writer:	Blair Bidmead
Release details
Part of:	A Romance in Twelve Parts
Release date:	31 May 2011
Faction Paradox
← Previous	Mightier Than the Sword
Next →	Nothing Lasts Forever

Now or Thereabouts was the fourth story in the Faction Paradox anthology A Romance in Twelve Parts. It first showed Cousin Ceol as a member of Faction Paradox, who would later play a major part in the novel Weapons Grade Snake Oil.

Summary

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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

References

• The herdsmen of Klasterhaus live in the Great Prairie.

Notes

• The tenants that Ceol and Dominic evict from the Eleven-Day Empire previously appeared in author Blair Bidmead's story With All Awry from Myth Makers: The Golden Years, later republished on his blog. In that story, the seated war veteran was the Eighth Doctor, the drunk man was Richard E Grant's "Shalka" Doctor, and the singing man in the bathtub was the Ninth Doctor.

Continuity

• Ceol reappears in A Hundred Words from a Civil War, Party Kill Accelerator!, and Weapons Grade Snake Oil.

External links

• Now or Thereabouts at the Faction Paradox wiki
• The text of With All Awry on Blair Bidmead's blog