Little Clouds

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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