"I AM CONSCIOUS OF WHERE I COME FROM AND THE SADNESS THAT GROWS INSIDE OF ME. I AM CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS AND WHAT IT MAKES ME."¿ In a Western Sydney suburb that no longer exists, its name erased and replaced with another, a façade is created to mask the truth of its existence. Behind it is... a girl who runs a young woman dreaming beyond her uniform a boy cycling through his family line a girl who yearns for metamorphosis a young man playing with polarities a father who has lost himself a young man decaying under the summer sun a man's apology a woman who longs to be seen When the viciousness of hope is a powerful drug, the inescapability of hopelessness is even more devastating. MOUNT PLEASANT is a chapbook of ten stories inspired by the music of Solkyri.