Valentine #1 July 1967
"Free Me" in Valentine #1 (July 1967) delivers a quiet, tense moment as Susie steps onto her flat’s balcony, drawn by a stranger who asks her to dance. Ernest Ratcliff’s distinctive art captures her shifting emotions—from fleeting joy to dawning unease—as she realizes this man doesn’t belong, and the night takes a turn she didn’t expect. A striking, moody cover by Ratcliff sets the tone for a story that lingers in the space between invitation and intrusion.
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When a stranger beckons Susie to join him on the balcony, she asks him to dance. After probing him to see if he is one of her flatmates' boyfriends, she realizes he doesn't know either of them. At first, she is happy, then realizes he must be a gate crasher.
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