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  • The Vibe

    The Vibe

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    Tim Smith
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    All the people, the few who had been left behind – employed (whatever that means) – pressing the odd key, asking the occasional perfectly corralled question, they scattered like dust motes, like language.

  • The Assumption – Chapter 3 Training Daze

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    This chapter begins in the ex-Royal Navy town of Porthampton, specifically its train station. It is concerned with our protagonist’s souring relationship with his remaining blood relative: the vile Aunt Bernadette. What went wrong with this chapter? It’s a jumble. It’s two chapters maybe three. For some reason I wrote about Laurie’s (our mulit-gendered/sexed protagonist)…

  • The Sin Bin

    The Sin Bin

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    Tim Smith
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    I’ve been a news journalist and editor then a non-fiction book editor for a very long time. This might explain why I rebel against concision in my fiction. Among my sins are overwriting and over-plotting. Enough about me, here’s are the screw-ups that never made it to their nascency. Rather than forget them, I thought…

  • The Assumption – Chapter 4 The Four Crosses Hotel

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    This chapter introduces you to the Four Crosses Hotel, its owner elegant Mrs Maeve Morgen who our protagonist, Laurie Gonne must deliver a letter too. Little does Laurie know, which is unlike them. Ireland makes itself present. As does Sydney Australia, where I lived for a decade. You will get to meet the bellhop, Little…

  • The Assumption – Chapter 2 My Journey Began

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    Tim Smith
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    This chapter was actually the original starting point of the novel. It came originally from a short story. The story was about a sexless and genderless protagonist who had decided to join an interplanetary trip. The trip was one way. No returns. So, our hero, or heroine, decides to visit everybody they’d hurt during their…