"Taking the piss out of him wasn't such a good idea, was it?" I said.
"He would've done it anyway. Guys like that, they're looking for a fight —— and I just happened to be there, wearing the wrong skin colour and a silly hat."
"Yeah,…
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Stowaway Time
"You don't like escapism?" I said, trying not to laugh.
"No. I don't."
"So what we have been doing for the last ten days?"
"This isn't an escape from reality," Uman said. "This is our reality."
Was it? I guessed it was,…
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Lives as the River Does
"Lives as the river does, never standing still or turning back but forever flowing onwards. If you should reach a dessert, transform yourself into cloud and float across it, then fall as rain on the other side to become a river once more."…
Sunday, September 11, 2016
Magical
I woke early. Phoneless, I had no idea what time it was, but when I unzipped the flap carefully, so as not to wake Uman, and poked my head out, a smoky just-after-dawn light seeped through the woods, turning the trees into charcoal sketches.…
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Strength of Character
"You don't like me very much, do you?"
Mum chips in. "Can you blame her, the way you're acting? You might think you're all grown up now, but——" Uman asked.
"Look, we're all getting a bit tired and tetchy," R.I. Ryan says. "Shall we…
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Rules
We talked about rules; how you decided which ones to obey and which to break. It was like a class discussion in Citizenship ... only, it was nothing like a class discussion in Citizenship.
"Are you a rule breaker?" Uman asked.
"In…
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Started with an Appearance
Where is he? It's all I can think about. Every minute since it ended.
D.I. Ryan wants to hear it from the beginning. The first of the fifteen days, I presume she means; the day I went missing. It started a couple of weeks before then, though.…
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