About this story
You play Avis, a professor's daughter, who meets a socialist at her father's dinner table in 1912 and begins checking his claims because she fully expects to disprove them. A hundred and sixteen chapters from a dinner-party argument to a crushed revolt, told by someone who knows the ending.
Who you’ll meet
Ernest Everhard. The reader is Avis, whose manuscript this is.
How it opens
Seven centuries later, a scholar found these pages in a hollow oak and called them poor history but priceless testimony.
His foreword warned that love enlarged Ernest, recorded three oligarchic centuries, and left the writer's fate unproved.
John CunninghamWe had better speak plainly about the February guest.
What made the February guest matter?
John CunninghamI met him speaking from a box in the street and invited him home.
Choose
The February guest troubles me.
The February guest may mislead us.