Luminist Publications ~ Aleister Crowley

 THE STRATAGEM

“Among the convicts there was one universal pleasure, a pleasure that could cease only with life or with the empire of the reason, a pleasure that the governor might (and did) indeed restrict, but could not take away. I refer to hope — the hope of escape. Yes, sir, that spark (alone of all its ancient fires) burnt in this breast — and in that of my fellow convicts.”

 A story by Aleister Crowley, first published in The English Review,
Volume 13, Number 6, June 1914.  $4.99

 FICTION

CROWLEY