The Sundial by Shirley Jackson Season of Storms

Season of Storms

The permanent nature of transition in Nepal has been attributed to power-greedy rulers of the past who always tried to play India or China card to remain in power

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or celebrating New Year's Eve with Yasser Arafat

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson Season of StormsAunt Fanny knows when the world will end. Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one is surprised that while the Halloran clan gathers at the crumbling old mansion for a funeral she wanders off to the secret garden. But when she reports the vision she had there, the family is engulfed in fear, violence, and madness. For Aunt Fanny's long dead father has given her the precise date of the final cataclysm!