Last week she went downstairs into her garage to see what was wrong with her hot-water system and she noticed someone had stolen the copper rings from it and had dismantled the entire thing. It was definitely a bad area, but it was affordable—so she lived there … at least until she could find [...]
Don’t squash my spirit.
I have been doing so much lately that I have not had a chance to look at this project. But as ol’ blue eyes said, ‘I thought about cuttin’ out… but my heart just ain’t gonna buy it.’ So here I am talking to nobody about this project. I am about to [...]
‘This is what happens when you drink putrefied brown tap-water,’ she convinced herself again, ‘plenty of things go into that water supply that I have no knowledge of.’
Water? Who cares about water? You are going to die …
Perhaps the sheer boredom of doing the dishes was leading to this hallucination? Kimberly wondered if [...]
She opened the brown wooden door to grab her prescription medication off the shelf, hesitating as she did so. Kimberly carefully studied the bottle and then conspicuously opened the container.
‘I hate poppin’ these bloody pills.’
Down the hatch they went, although it just might be a little too late for her. Once they started [...]
Kimberly was daydreaming while she ran her white and green chequered cloth over the last dish in the pile, reaching for a nearby towel to start drying them. Poor water quality, due to the continuing drought (or so the media has said), meant that the water supply for Brisbane had gone to a dark [...]
‘Mum,’ Kimberly said with a soft voice, ‘I’m sorry for what happened. I trust you if you, I … I …’
‘Yes, Kimmy …’
‘I want to stay here with you for a while if that’s OK.’
Kimberly opened the shower door and poked her head out to look at her mother and to give her a [...]
‘For centuries we have looked up to the human race as an enemy that has stopped us from living our lives in contentment, in the fullness of a body,’ the boss (or CEO, as he was known by all and sundry in the sub-terrain) shouted as he addressed the crowd.
I can tell you now [...]
Thanks for stopping by. The launching pad section of this website is where all the latest parts of the book will be launched and where I will make periodic announcements about the websites and notes on the project. If you look to your right you will see the archives. I am going to post all [...]