Washington, DC, September 2011. A city as renowned for pushing papers as for pushing deadlines. Where the machinery of American government fights tooth and nail against the encroachment of twenty-first century technology… clinging desperately to methods, communication styles, and entire industries rendered obsolete in the world beyond the Capital Beltway.

Bicycle messenger Swipe is on the final delivery of her career — transporting a set of vital papers to a government office by a five o’clock deadline — before moving ahead with long-delayed wedding plans. But forces intent on interrupting that delivery quickly move to oppose her — as does one of her unprincipled courier competitors.

Rated AD-PG, so parental guidance is suggested
Contains multiple variations of someone being called an ass, one instance each of “son of a bitch” as well as “crazy bitch” and taking JC’s name in vain. Plus, misogyny, car crashes and related violence, and cold calculations that affect human lives.

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We conclude the very Victorian ghost story from very Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell in a way that will make you want to have a fainting couch nearby.

Rated AD-G for general audiences
We’re talking fairly standard Victorian ghost spookiness, and some likewise Victorian admonitions against youthful folly.

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Celebrated Victorian writer Elizabeth Gaskell gives us a perfectly Victorian ghost story.

Rated AD-G for general audiences
We’re talking fairly standard Victorian ghost spookiness here: Long on family history, with chills lovingly curated.

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Enjoy William R. Coughlan’s award-winning narration of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Rats in the Walls” amid an immersive soundscape.

Rated AD-PG, so parental guidance is suggested
Deals with cannibalism, ancient evils, and includes an antechamber from Hell, so basically, it’s Lovecraft.

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