The fight had gone out of him. He allowed himself to be dragged through the streets of the city and didn’t once try to struggle. Blindfolded, he was aware of the different smells, sounds and feelings of the city as he passed through it. There was all the usual noise of glass smashing, fires being … Continue reading Slade – Part 5
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Slade – Part 4
The sound of riots ringing in his ears, Slade crouched down behind some garbage cans. He caught his breath then poked his head around one of the cans – the gangs were throwing rocks through windows, running away with TV sets and stereos, hurling abuse at the raggedy group of army cadets that were valiantly … Continue reading Slade – Part 4
Slade Part 3
Slade crumpled the letter in his hand. Another child, Angie had another child. Slade couldn’t believe it. His mother, his best friend in the entire world – she had a whole life away from him and his father. Not only a whole life but a whole separate family… A siren woke Slade from his dreams. … Continue reading Slade Part 3
Slade Part 2
It had been raining for hours. The type of rain that isn’t heavy but that drenches you to the bone. Slade felt that the rain had even gotten in to his very soul. Rain in Greendale was a rarity. The township enjoyed year round sunshine, even in the winter. So when Slade woke up to … Continue reading Slade Part 2
Slade Part 1
Slade didn’t know how long he had been there. Could have been hours could have been days. The light was always the same so it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night. Slade suspected that it was somewhere in between; that he was part of some weird twilight zone existence where reality … Continue reading Slade Part 1
Ebony, Java, Siva Part 2
From the outside, things were certainly done right. Adah and Christo threw parties regularly, some for their adult friends, and some for the girls and their school-mates, sort of debutant balls for the pre-pubescent. Java and Siva always understood that this life was the dream and that somewhere outside the estate, reality still loomed, no … Continue reading Ebony, Java, Siva Part 2
Ebony, Java, Siva Part 1
Technically speaking, Ebony was not legitimate. She was borne of a fabulous affair between her common-class mother, Adah, and a man named Christopher Rafael, a wealthy diplomat who had inherited a huge estate in the area. At the time the affair began, Adah was married to Daniel Hayes, a rather unsuccessful businessman whose only notable … Continue reading Ebony, Java, Siva Part 1
Ram – Part 2
When the virus hit, Ram could not understand that it was a disease that afflicted his parents and not him. One evening Sue sat down with Ram to explain that she was going to leave the house and never return. As she spoke she arranged and rearranged a dense quantity of canned foods on the … Continue reading Ram – Part 2
Ram – Part 1
Ramone Kingsley was a hypochondriac. His mother blamed his father Lawrence for his military tidiness—early childhood conditioning, Sue claimed. You have fathered a boy who is afraid to make a mess. And so he had. Lawrence raised his boy in a shady suburban neighborhood that was host to dozens of other military families. Lawrence had … Continue reading Ram – Part 1
Sammy – Part 2
One day, Norah asked Sammy to sit with her at his studying table, and asked him to be very quiet and serious. She told Sammy about stories of the old Inuit Eskimos. People don’t stay around forever, Sammy, she said. The Inuits once sent their elderly out into the ocean, riding on boat of ice, … Continue reading Sammy – Part 2