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Rakes Away - a Halloween story

  RAKES AWAY Gert Ramm     The baffling case of the time-travelling hipster bar… In October 2024, paranormal blog Supernatural Sightings was granted an audience with two of the most enigmatic writers of recent years; Becca Stone and Jack Dutton. Friends since 2001, the pair keep a low profile, shun social media, and rarely give interviews.  Dutton is the author of the facto-fictional time-travelling novel Nobody's Future, published in 2021 to critical and commercial acclaim. Stone is the screenwriter behind Netflix’s time-travelling fantasy/horror series Resurrection Men , soon to begin its second season.   We meet at a pub called The Ship and Shovel near Charing Cross station. Popular with civil servants from the nearby offices, at eleven o'clock on a drab Tuesday morning we have the place pretty much to ourselves. Despite the relatively early hour, Dutton and Stone are both drinking pints.  Dutton, on a flying visit from his adopted ...