Novahead (2015)
Novahead
“I went out to find the others gathering at the parking gap. The Fed was acting shifty. Here’s where I noticed her nose at last. It was nothing special. A halo outlined Heber’s moving figure like a victim chalkline. This celestial conduct unnerved one and all, but Edna still smiled at everything. ‘As the rhyme goes: “We’re all still here, no-one has gone away, waiting.’” He got into the back of the car, then poked his head out. ‘“Acting much too well and procrastinating.”’ Then he added, more qu...ietly, ‘We eat hours and vomit hours,’ and dodged his head back in again. The last part was Gamete. The kid got in beside him as Professor Traven emerged from the house, his failures trailing behind him like a dead parachute. ‘I want to give you something,’ Traven said, then looked vaguely about him. Spotting a snail on the bleached picket fence, he detached this with an audible pop and handed it to me. ‘Use it wisely.’ I made to go but he grasped my arm and leant in confidentially, breathing hard.MoreLess
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