New Year, Old World

Back off – we already have the story rights to this one. "The city of Walthamstow, in northeast London, Great Britain, has hired a magician to fight a scourge of card-based conmen." (for the entire story, check out the Ellusionist blog here). We got jealous just reading this line, too: "The officer spoke to the council and encouraged it to recruit Faja, whose older brother worked in a pub where members of the Magic Circle hung out." The Magic Circle! It might be 2009 now, but it's good to know the Old World, especially this dreamlike version of it, still exists out there.