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
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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
Matt Robinson (Slade) Looks into the Past…
Look into the Past If you could spend a day in any time period, which one would it be and why? What do you think you would learn most from the experience? It would either be the 1960’s or the Roman times. I’m a bit of a hippy at heart and the 60’s were the … Continue reading Matt Robinson (Slade) Looks into the Past…
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
Sammy – Part 1
Sammy was the second son of Norah and Clance Everett, but he was practically an only child. His big brother Wright was 15 years older than him, and, as long as Sammy could remember, had only been a visitor to the house, not a live-in part of the family. In fact, Sammy felt closer to … Continue reading Sammy – Part 1
Bob the Dog – Part 2
Bob woke up in a white room, to the gentle prodding of a man in a white coat. There was a family in the room, a girl, a boy and their father, and they were talking in concerned voices. The man was complaining that his children had missed half a day of school and promised … Continue reading Bob the Dog – Part 2
Bob the Dog – Part 1
Bob the dog had a secret, life, one that no one knew about, and few suspected. To start off, the name ‘Bob’ was only an alias, a case of mistaken identity. His real name is a well-guarded secret, too sensitive to be revealed. ‘Bob’ was born in a lovely neighbourhood, one of 43 sons of … Continue reading Bob the Dog – Part 1