The experience she just had gave her a nauseous feeling, because she was not the type of person who could enjoy hallucinations as some kind of fun happy time. She had been having them for years and no matter how many times she had them or how many drugs she took, nothing ever prepared [...]
One of the most interesting things about living in the ghetto-like Eastern suburbs was the constant danger that real crime was around the corner, and you just never knew if a predator was waiting in the bushes or a flasher was around the next street or maybe even a rapist. It was [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]