Welcome to Trashland by Steve Cole

Author:Steve Cole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barrington Stoke Ltd
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Just a few minutes later, the sky is like a grey sponge squeezing its contents out over the world. The rain brings down all the toxins in the air. My head aches and my lungs sting.

Night-time gathers behind the storm clouds, and I sit in my tiny shack beside the chickens. I watch the outside through holes in the sheet. The chickens peck and pace like they’re nervous.

I hardly sleep. There’s an iron taste in the back of my throat. The rain stops before it’s light, and that’s when I head out into the dump. My crappy trainers squelch in the slimy mud. A goat sees me from behind a pile of old car exhausts. God knows what it’s chewing on.

We all have to survive here however we can.

And like Emanuel, I know that the ground can hide surprises.

The sun’s rising as I reach the place where X marks the spot. I see something solid in the shifting shadows.

And then I know I guessed right.

Emanuel is good at changing plans. He thought he could find his treasure in the dirt with a magnet. But he couldn’t, so he had to think of something else.

He thought he could dig up the treasure with a shovel. But he couldn’t, so he had to think of something else.

So now, here in the shadow-light, is a huge mechanical digger, parked up and ready to swallow down Trashland’s bedrock. It looks as if it could tear out the Earth’s core.

That’s why Emanuel paid Mr Ghazi’s friend who works for the Green Advocacy group. They can go anywhere to get samples of Trashland’s soil. I’ve seen these big diggers in action. They dig deep to see how far the pollution has spread. They roll in on anyone’s turf. They’re allowed to. No one stops them.

But I know that this digger isn’t here to collect soil samples.

Today, at last, Morgan’s treasure is coming out of the ground.

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