Sunspots and Forever Dark Omnibus by Gary Martin

Author:Gary Martin [Martin, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-10T22:00:00+00:00

6

My last class of the day is biology and it takes forever for it to finish. Finally, around twenty-one hundred, the teacher, Miss Brown, looks at her watch and just stops mid-sentence. She then tells everyone to go. I guess she must like the sound of her own voice because the class went on for half an hour longer than it should have, and my brain feels like it’s gone numb. I head in the direction of the dorm. All I want to do is lie down but the book Mister Jelvus gave me earlier is burning a hole in my bag.

The dorm is full and loud when I get in. There are no more classes today, and I guess no one really wants to do anything extra as it’s late.

Sitting on my bed, I pull out my biology text book, and slide Noah and the flood inside so any casual observer thinks I’m doing homework.

Opening it, I flick to page thirteen. Assuming there’ll be some sort of hidden text, or something that isn’t part of the book past this page. I’m suddenly very confused. Page thirteen is just the ark being filled with animals. The book is short, so I carefully flick through every page looking for something out of place or something cryptic. But the garish cartoon animals are still smiling, and everyone looks happy as the world comes to an end with a flood. What the fuck is this? I’m suddenly worried that the apparent truth may be the ramblings of a madman.

I decide to go to Mister Jelvus’s extra class anyway, as I’ve got nothing better to do, and my numb brain has been re-awakened with questions. I leave the dorm and head out into the fresh evening air. Joe is standing outside and beckons me over.

“You goin’ to Jelvus’s evening class, John?” he asks.

“I guess so.”

“Me too. I’ll walk with you.”

This is a turn up. We walk the path through the long thicket of trees and head toward the main building. Now that Joe’s made a point of actually paying attention to me, I have no idea what to say. Maybe I’ve finally worn him down, just as I was giving up on him.

“So,” he says, “your parents are some sort of freedom fighter hippy types like mine then?”

“How do you know that?” I ask.

“Educated guess. Jelvus only bothers with so-called free thinkers. Or who he thinks could potentially be.”

“To be honest, Joe, since my parents left me here, I couldn’t care less about their free-thinking bollocks. It’s pointless and stupid,” I say, quoting something Joe has said a lot, but he ignores it and carries on.

“But you’ve been exposed to a different way of life, John. We all have. I think he means to exploit that.”

“Really? I’m only going because I’m bored. I have no intention of being exploited. In what way is he trying to exploit us?” I ask.

“I dunno. He hasn’t got to what he claims will be the good bit yet. He started the class about a month ago.

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