Tomorrow's Fish and Chips (short story)

Tomorrow's Fish and Chips
Main character(s):	Ibrahim Hadmani, Helena
Main setting:	Ibrahim Hadmani's flat
Key crew
Writer:	Iain McLaughlin
Release details
Printed in:	Into the Unknown
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Tomorrow's Fish and Chips was a short story published in Into the Unknown.

Summary

Ibrahim returned home after a trip to the destruction of the Crystal Palace in 1936 with Habitat. He shows Helena a copy of the Daily Mirror he's brought from 1936. Later, when Ibrahim is showering to get rid of the the smell of smoke, Helena switches the Daily Mirror with a copy of the Daily Express from the same day, hoping Ibrahim won't notice. Her reason: the second page of that day's Daily Mirror had a photograph of a woman greeting Jewish refugees to London, a woman who looked exactly Helena.

Characters

• Ibrahim Hadmani
• Helena

References

• Ibrahim does a Leslie Phillips impression.

Notes

• This is one of the only stories in the Erimem series where Erimem doesn't appear at all.

Continuity

• Helena is shown to have a secret collection of newspaper articles with information on her past activities. (PROSE: The Three Faces of Helena)
• On 30 November 1936, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire caused by a hatched Phoenix. (COMIC: The Eagle of the Reich)