Ann Orthur

Little Clouds (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Little Clouds - Ann Orthur:

Containing, but not limited to:

Flic-Flac:

A couple transported to a strange land, unaware the world around them is on the cusp of unraveling. They spend their days oblivious to the storm that is building. Their lives, if they manage to keep them, will never be the same. Their future changes with just one sentence. Soon after, their fate is sealed.

Alien Invasion:

Following a mistake a man travelled to start a new life. He brought with him a family. They meant no harm but unwillingly carried a sicknes, old as humananity, that brings turbulence and grief to their new home and friends.

Interlude 1: Jog on

A man encounters people from another time and place. He tries to help them. At first communication is difficult until three become four and then they all move forward together.

Endorphin-seeking Orphan:

A war child, bombed, orphaned and lost is claimed by a strange new mother. She takes him, amidst the chaos, looking for a way out. She smuggles him back to her home pretending everything is normal and tries to restart two lives; but you cannot always leave your past behind.

Interlude 2: Unnecessary Filler

Filler that is unnecessary although not entirely pointless. It's about cooking.

Chicken Paradise:

A detached man, living where he shouldn't, fries chicken for his sins. He'd already found everything he ever wanted right in front of him; but the gulf of time placed it just out of reach - for now. His already fragile mental state slowly deteriorates to a point where he chooses violence and irretrievably alters at least one life and two relationships with his actions.

Interlude 3: The Kebobalypse (Optional)

An unlikely history of a street food classic - with no citations. N.B. This chapter is entirely optional and has no overall bearing on the story.

Flic-Flac (cont.):

A re-examination, from a different perspective, of events leading up to and immediately after the ending of one life and the beginning of another; then a familiair voice comes forward again moments before the world unravels.

Little Clouds - nothing more than part-told stories, saying some of what happened and what would happen and why. An incomplete history, sprawled out on the page. Nothing matters. Fiction is lies.

Above your (e)book, way out at sea, a wispy white tendril of cloud floats in the big blue yonder. A solitary wanderer lost in an eternity of azure.

A ripple of breeze cools your brow. You look around. Everything is irie. You sip from an iced glass. Time passes.

You see another cloud; this one bigger and slightly grey. The people who know, know. A storm is rising.

TL;DR It's about a couple on holiday and it going a bit wonky at the end, some immigrants, a man going for a jog, an orphan,

some chefs, a fried chicken operative, the history of the kebab, and then back to the 2 people on holiday.

Little Clouds by Ann Orthur

"Neither a good book done badly nor a poor book done well."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ann Orthur
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223254232
• Artikelnr.: 69059943

Autorenporträt

Just after her fifteenth birthday Ann suffered a traumatic head injury, by accident, and missed the next eight months of her life. After waking from her coma she became convinced that she could, and should, teach the world to dance. She secured funding for her dance licence, once she'd recovered, and ran a succesful studio. She thought she married the man of her dreams until he was indefinitely detained by the authorities on suspicion of illegally impersonating a person. Money worries came. She, at first reluctantly, experimented with exotic dancing. Financial presssure soon evaporated. She ran a venue for many years until the compulsory closure of her multi award-winning exotic dance club due to a pandemic. She thought to persue a new direction. Besides, her hips were not what they used to be. She found work as a remote youth helper. Using her years of experience to help counsel and advise. Ann is childless and at her age and condition is likely to stay so. She began to write some stories, between calls, on an old reconditioned laptop from her neighbour: Peps Jovic. Mr. Jovic read the stories when Ann had had one of her "episodes" and he was looking after her and her dog. He suggested some vague alterations, maybe chopping a few bits out and then stitching most of what remained into this barely coherent story. They now realise writing is hard and probably best left to experts. Ann intends to return the laptop. Mr. Jovic is gonna wind his neck in. No apologies are offered for any amateur mistakes or errors herewithin. Thank you, please.