![]() Goldfields is a paranormal short story from Australia's past. But tragic, dead Ivy won't let go of their friendship quite so easily. ![]() Through the barrier between two worlds, Ivy and publican's daughter Alice console each other in their monotonous existence.Īlice is ecstatic when she finds a way to leave the Golden Plains. Stranded in the middle of the Australian desert, the Golden Plains Hotel is isolated, run down and haunted by murdered Ivy Westerly. For Lucy Earnshaw and her husband Tom, their arrival on the goldfields is marred by unimaginable grief. With death around every corner, people are all too willing to believe in ghosts, and embrace the spiritualism movement finding its way across the seas. A reminder that there were layers between life and death that stretched far beyond our comprehension." Life is brutal on the goldfields of Castlemaine. She was a young woman in a torn yellow bustle dress and eyes like storm clouds. ![]() But to me she wasn't just a flash of light in the corner of your eye. Wished I experienced her the way the rest of the world did: as a cold draught, or a banging door you been gosh darn meaning to get fixed for months now. Book One in the History and Horrors Short Story Collection ![]()
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