Age of Anansi by James Lovegrove

Author:James Lovegrove
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd

IT WAS A hard run, the hardest I’d ever done. The heat was atrocious. Every mile seemed to sap a bit more of the life out of me. The sweat on my face dried to a salty crust. My throat burned with dust and dehydration.

But Anansi lent me the stamina to keep at it. He drove me onwards, telling me I had the body of an African, designed to cope with lack of water and withstand the blaze of the sun. It was in my blood, in my very DNA, to endure these sorts of conditions. I was as much a creature of harsh, arid lands as Nanabaa Oboshie had been, as all my ancestors had been, as Anansi himself was. We’d both agreed beforehand that I could do this. We were both counting on it.

Reaching Interstate 15, I got lucky. Some Good Samaritan in an RV saw me trudging along by the roadside and pulled over.

“Need a lift, pal?”

I got round the “What the hell are you doing out here on foot?” questions by simply saying my car had broken down.

Minutes later I was back in Sweetwater, where I gulped water from the drinking fountain in the hotel lobby until my stomach could hold no more. I was planning on phoning Mojave Motors from my room to tell them where their Taurus was and ask them to send help, but first I needed to lie down and recover from my ordeal.

Let those three stew for a while, Anansi said. Rub their noses in their shame.

In the event, I sank into a exhausted doze, and it wasn’t until mid-afternoon that I managed to make the call. A couple of hours later, Gunther, Rinzen and Robin were brought back to Sweetwater in the cab of a tow truck, with the Taurus hooked up and trundling along behind. Gunther was moaning about the awful headache he had from his hunger and thirst, while Rinzen and Robin simply professed themselves glad to be alive.

All three, it goes without saying, were out of the contest.

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