title: Rooms: Writers in the Attic
author:  The Cabin 
description: Authors included in the anthology are: Elaine Ambrose, Elizabeth Beaman, Dee Bowling, Barbara C. Brown, Marisa Dallas, Bill English, William F. Ferree, Maureen A Harty, Greg Heinzman, Marilynn Jackson, Grove Koger, Maggie Koger, Heidi Kraay, Kerry Lindorfer, Kathy Jo Lynne, Barbara Martin- Sparrow, Ramona S. Neal, Sue Nixon, Rae Anne Norell, Michael Philley, E. D. Rea, Molly E. Reed, Sheila Robertson, Janet Schlicht, Janet Sherrill, Emily Simnit, Edvin Subasic, Christy G. Thomas, and Eric E Wallace.
zlib_text: # Web of Dreams
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Casteel #5 V.C. Andrews
  
  Copyright (c) 1990  
  ISBN: 0671729197  
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  ## PROLOGUE
  
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  Luke and I pass through the tall wrought-iron gates that spell out
  FARTHINGGALE MANOR. Patches of rust have broken out along the letters like a
  skin rash and the pounding of sea storms and winter winds have bent the gates
  back. Now they lean against the somber gray skies and the great house itself
  looks oppressed, weighed down by time and the heavy and bleak history that
  lives in its hallways and grand rooms. There are a few employees kept on to
  look after the house and grounds, but no one really checks on their work and
  they do relatively little to keep things up.
  
  
  Luke squeezes my hand. It has been years, centuries, it seems, since we have
  been here. The dismal skies are appropriate for our arrival, for this is not a
  nostalgic journey. We would rather not remember my stay here, my imprisonment
  I should say, after the dreadful accident that took my parents' lives.
  
  
  But our jo