Dust by Christine Bongers

Author:Christine Bongers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2009-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

The darkness reshaped itself into the familiar shadows of my shuttered room. My eyes seemed so limited, focusing on the here and the now, able to make out only the dimmest of shapes, dark against darker, a slit of light under the door. Useless eyes. Boring. The colour of the Dee River: not green, not brown, but something in between.

Cow dung, Punk would say.

Like Aileen’s, a voice whispered, but I pushed it away.

We were the exception that proved the rule: the opposites that didn’t attract. I was done with her. It was over.

The blackness flickered and the sound of the TV cut in.

Someone else couldn’t sleep.

The jingle that had been playing on the radio and RTQ7 for weeks now drifted in like a good omen, a reassuring sign of better times ahead.

It’s time for freedom

It’s time for moving, It’s time to begin,

Yes, it’s time …

I closed my eyes on Little Pattie’s voice soaring above the chorus.

It’s time for children,

It’s time to show them, Time to look ahead,

Yes, it’s time.

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