Rear Garden by James Barrie

Author:James Barrie [Barrie, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severus House publishing
Published: 2018-03-04T22:00:00+00:00

Scots in Space

Like quite a few people with overactive imaginations, Stuart McRae believed that people originated from outer space. Stuart, however, went one step further. He believed that the different races on Earth came from different planets. The Scots were from one planet, the English another.

The Scots on their home planet had limited food, so had gone in search of other planets. They had discovered Scotland and in its rich soils they had grown the oats from which they made their porridge.

He put his ideas into books: a planned series of Scottish Science Fiction featuring a band of feisty Scots who travel the universe, battling the anaemic English and other alien breeds. His first book in the series, working title: ‘Scots in Space’, was nearing completion and he was looking forward to the royalties pouring in. He would put the money into offshore bank accounts to make sure the English taxman couldn’t get a slice of it. He was even considering opening a Swiss bank account; he admired the Swiss: they knew how to squirrel away other people’s money.

In the meantime, he played househusband to two children: Dougie and Daisy. His wife, Leslie, worked for a bank in the centre of York and made enough money for them to live in reasonable comfort – just until his first book was published, he told Leslie. Then they would leave England, return to Scotland and buy a castle by a loch, and Leslie would not have to work again.

It was just a matter of time before the literary world would bow to his pen.

He bashed another paragraph into his laptop:

The Scots of Scaramanga had long lived under the oppressive oligarchy of the English tyrants. Then, one day, a man emerged who would in time sow the seed of discontent and begin the uprising that would bring down the oligarchs. He was the chosen Scot. His name was Hamish McHaddock. Hamish would bring down the oligarchical governance that oppressed the people of Scaramanga...

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