Tuckerucci Fairytales

  AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Chronology 1    Discovery of the drug     2    Development of Deep cover 9     3    Diplomatic earthquake     4    Global and national recoil     5    Weapon of paranoia      6    Cardwell’s descent into paranoia     7    Enter the DC9     8    Spectacular recovery      9    Assassinations of the DC9      10    Crocodile researcher     11    Community meeting     12    Earthquake     13    Something in the water     14    Fifteen minutes of fame     15    Another fifteen minutes of fame     16    The boy...

Previous title: AN AUSTRALIAN ODYSSEY   AUSTRALIAN ODDERCENE ABSTRACT In one sentence A small town is transformed into a community by an amazing event, and becomes a catalyst  for the end of civilisation as we know it, and the renewal of the face of the earth. In a slightly longer sentence The residents of a small town are gradually transformed into a community by an amazing event, the nature of which unfolds as they deepen their commitment to a new way of life, and become instrumental on the one hand in unmasking and immobilising civilised institutions that have attempted to impose uniformity on people everywhere, and on the other, in precipitating local community on a global scale, facilitating the fullest identification of its inhabitants with the landscape. Part 1 CROCODILE DANCING The residents of a small town (after a brief and, at the time, inexplicable experience of horror) explore and celebrate with ever increasing wonder, the shared insight that has penetrated their ...

AUSTRALIAN ODYSSENE Abstract In one sentence A small town is transformed into a community by an amazing event, and becomes a catalyst  for the end of civilisation as we know it, and the renewal of the face of the earth. In a slightly longer sentence The residents of a small town are gradually transformed into a community by an amazing event, the nature of which unfolds as they deepen their commitment to a new way of life, and become instrumental on the one hand in unmasking and immobilising civilised institutions that have attempted to impose uniformity on people everywhere, and on the other, in precipitating local community on a global scale, facilitating the fullest identification of its inhabitants with the landscape. Part 1 CROCODILE DANCING The residents of a small town (after a brief and, at the time, inexplicable experience of horror) explore and celebrate with ever increasing wonder, the shared insight that has penetrated their lives, plunging themselves with insatiable cur...

1st Movement Having reached its zenith, even the sun seemed to find the day too hot to keep moving, for it loitered long, glaring indecently through the sparse foliage. What had appeared from a distance to be promising relief for a solitary bushwalker, turned out to be meanly deceptive as he searched for an adequate patch of shade. The trees had learned to minimise their exposure to the sun by turning the edges of their leaves towards it, thus rendering the shade they cast most ineffective when it was most needed. Propped up against a tree trunk the exhausted wanderer made a couple of limp attempts to use his map as a fan. But it wasn’t worth the effort. He stared into infinity across a landscape so still that the motion of his breath captured his full attention. Emptied of thought his mind dissolved into the landscape and all sense of distinction between himself and his surroundings vanished. In this state of inner silence even the pain of the mid day heat “disappeared” – transfo...

LGBTQ fiction WARNING SEXUAL VIOLENCE A BOY A GIRL AND A ANOTHER BOY  The boy, Hippo, was sixteen going on seventeen, and the girl, Hrodi, was seventeen going on eighteen. Pozzo or Pozza or Pozzie, depending who was talking to him, was old enough to throw his weight around; and hated Hippo with a passion. Hrodi preferred the younger boy’s company. They lived in the village of Atomz where Hippo’s father, Thesis, was The Man; Thesis, so called because in his verbal jousting days, instead of saying, like everyone else, “I have a theory about that...”, would say “My thesis is as follows...” and so his cohort, and then the village, began to call him Thesis, and the name stuck. Thesis was  married to Lyta, Hippo’s mother, until he accidentally killed her during a feud between their two families. A decade later he married Faydee, who, unlike the stereotype step-mother, was smitten by her step-son and doted on him whenever he was around the family home. Beginning on his sev...