title: Bonfire Stories
author: Sevastian Winters
description: A California native, Master Story Teller Sevastian Winters lives with his family in British Columbia. His diverse interests include politics, religion, humor, and social justice. (which makes him fascinating on the internet and boring at cocktail parties) His stories reflect his own interests, but rarely his own viewpoints as he prefers to "ask his characters" what they believe and why!
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  # At a Winter's Fire
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Bernard Edward J. Capes
  
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  THE MOON STRICKEN
  
  
  JACK AND JILL
  
  
  THE VANISHING HOUSE
  
  
  DARK DIGNUM
  
  
  WILLIAM TYRWHITT'S “COPY”
  
  
  A LAZY ROMANCE
  
  
  BLACK VENN
  
  
  II
  
  
  III
  
  
  IV
  
  
  AN EDDY ON THE FLOOR
  
  
  PART II
  
  
  DINAH'S MAMMOTH
  
  
  THE BLACK REAPER
  
  
  THE BLACK REAPER
  
  
  II
  
  
  A VOICE FROM THE PIT
  
  
  
  
  
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  E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the
  
  
  Online Distributed Proofreading Team
  
  
  AT A WINTER'S FIRE
  
  
  by
  
  
  BERNARD CAPES
  
  
  Author of _The Lake of Wine_ , etc.
  
  
  1899
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All except three of the following Tales have already appeared in
  
  
  English or American Magazines. The best thanks of the author are due to
  
  
  the Editors of the “Cornhill,” “Macmillan's,” “Lippincott's” and
  
  
  “Pearson's” Magazines, and to the Editor of the “Sketch,” for
  
  
  permission to reprint such of the stories as have been published in
  
  
  their pages