Alicia Atkins
speaker
1,217 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Alicia Atkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Lower, crows sit atop the hedges, watching her progress.
Ada understands it is not the crows who see through their eyes.
The maze winds left and right, an impossible breeze shaking the leaves that line the way.
Beneath her feet, roots disturb the earth, though no trees are in sight, as if the veins of this land are on show.
Something courses beneath her.
This house is alive.
She marches on.
The path meanders until, finally, it opens out into a wide clearing.
At the center of the clearing is a door, suspended in space, nothing holding it up, nothing seemingly behind it.
Ada strides towards it, grabs the brass handle, turns and pushes.
It is not the grass or the hedges she sees, but another room inside this spatially contorted house.
A room containing rows of dusty shelves holding books untouched in centuries.
Ada steps into the room and the door closes.
She doesn't glance over her shoulder, knowing the door is no longer there.
The books are old, all wrinkles and faded colors.
She peruses them, stopping here and there to rub dust from a spine with her finger, so as to read the titles more clearly.
She remembers Marie reading and reading, until sleep would drag her into its malevolent realm.
But not before she read passages from Alice in Wonderland to the younger, bright-eyed Ada.
She wonders if there's a copy of the Carol book here, but there are too many to look through and too little time.
If she lingers, the creature will surely catch up.
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