W900 by Tom McNulty Genre: Literary Fiction
Hovis Monk had been deceived. Perhaps he always had been. His comfortable life in the Snowdonian bubble, provided by The Blue Yonder Mining Company, was ending. As his world implodes Hovis spins into a realm of inner and outer realities, chance occurrences, memories, music, luck and laughter. This story describes the reunion of Hovis with his old Paisley Underground band, a little known group called The Festers, and his struggles with a very special Flame Red Time Trialing Onesey….. Add to GoodreadsAmazon * Google
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He slowly cycled around the margins of the clearing. It appeared the surrounding trees
had completely overgrown what must have been a homestead at some time in the long distant
past, but the house, with its attendant sheds and outbuildings, had long gone. Nowadays,
only a stone skeleton of its former presence still existed, half buried by mosses, pine needles
and fast-growing seedlings.
The air in the glade held a deep silence, one that hinted at an ominous, yet peaceful
solitude. An essence of the past permeated the strangely warm breeze, which occasionally
wafted through these aged Pines. ‘Maybe this place belonged to a Slate Miner and his family,
at one time, or another…….’
“I wonder what happened to them?” He asked aloud, just as Cheech came racing back
into the glade, his tail wagging and panting in an excited way.
“Squirrel, was it?” Hovis enquired but Cheech didn’t reply, he only wagged his tail more
furiously when Hovis spoke to him. “Come on then, let’s see where you’ve been,” enquired
Hovis and pushed off, into the needled detritus littering the pathway in front of him
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Back in the present, passing through the glade today, had he cared to look up, high
between the obscuring trunks of the tall Pines, you could just see No.37, the last log cabin on
The Hill; while all around it were the charred corpses of other people’s lives. Hovis knew this
fate was inevitable for No.37. In a mere few weeks he would be both homeless and jobless,
but today he was wearing the Big Mig’s Flame Red Onesey and he was still free to dream.
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