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Seven stories of life's most perilous journey, the journey within the mind. Hey, Hey, Paula Imagine life as a grand karaoke session. Your world plays the music, all you have to do is sing along. Pity poor Paula. They’re playing her song and she doesn’t know the words. And she’s missed her cue, poor thing.  Free Fall Rising Cameron has been sent to a boy's home. Like most things in his life he doesn't know why it is happening. And like most things in his life it is going to be dangerous for him. But this time William Golding goes along for the ride.  Me ‘n’ You You sit contemplating a bowl of spaghetti. Each strand twists and dives at random. What if your life was like that? And what would happen if one or two strands decided to unravel from the rest? Alice is about to find out. It's too bad her name means "truth."  Window! Someone looks out a window, or is...
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Seven stories of life's most perilous journey, the journey within the mind.

Hey, Hey, Paula 
Imagine life as a grand karaoke session. Your world plays the music, all you have to do is sing along. Pity poor Paula. They’re playing her song and she doesn’t know the words. And she’s missed her cue, poor thing. 

Free Fall Rising 
Cameron has been sent to a boy's home. Like most things in his life he doesn't know why it is happening. And like most things in his life it is going to be dangerous for him. But this time William Golding goes along for the ride. 

Me ‘n’ You 
You sit contemplating a bowl of spaghetti. Each strand twists and dives at random. What if your life was like that? And what would happen if one or two strands decided to unravel from the rest? Alice is about to find out. It's too bad her name means "truth." 

Window! 
Someone looks out a window, or is he really looking in? And this thing about watching a movie, what if it's the movie watching us? Sometimes a window is life’s way of saying, "Look out!" 

The Axe Murderer’s Suitcase 
Shakespeare wrote a play about lovers within a play about lovers. Leoncavallo wrote an opera about lovers within an opera about lovers. Here an author writes a fantasy about lovers from within the fantasy of her own love. Then she finds the axe murderer's suitcase. 

Struggles To Be Stronger 
How do you get to know someone who has covered his tracks so competently? This man thinks he is exploring his father’s life but the real journey is elsewhere. He should fasten his seat belt for he’s in for a rough ride. 

A Leg To Stand On 
A man learns to swear. And he prays for a seagull. It’s not much of a foundation upon which to build a future. Or is it?

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The Axe Murderer’s Suitcase

“I’ve managed to kill him off,” said the voice as the door opened. Netta sounded edgy but Frank knew her victory.
 “Wonderful,” he said. “Come in and tell me how you did it.”
She threw a heavy bag on a chair near the door and walked to the liquor cabinet.
“You knew it was in there, didn’t you? You put it in there on purpose.” Netta’s voice was light enough but it held an edge of accusation that Frank recognised. This was a serious matter, for her victory had been won at considerable cost.
“You had to find it,” he said, “but I thought it was worth the risk.”
“Well, I’m glad you did. It’s been a tough journey and I’m not going to thank you. Not yet, anyway. And calling it the axe murderer’s suitcase was a dirty trick.”
“I thought you’d like that,” said Frank, his face breaking into an even wider grin.

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About Kim

I grew up on the red soil plains of country town Australia where the essentials of life were a bike and a rope swung out over the river. Study came to me with great difficulty and I dropped out of university and wandered through many areas of work. In my thirties I started to...

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