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Whooshing, whirling. pounding wind, rushing powerfully, wild, tearing branches, tiles, and pushing, loosening roots and toppling, crushing; rainfall...

Chapter Seven - Relations. second edition “Jules babe your still here,” Max smiled as he entered the living room. The smell of stale smoke hung in...

"So, you can have a liver transplant, a kidney transplant, a lung transplant, a double lung transplant, pancreas, intestine and many more including a...

My wife became furious because I forgot to buy her some candy and flowers. The bitch tried to electrocute me with a toaster while I was taking a...

He hurt me, you see. That’s what you have to understand. I put a lot of faith in him and he took that faith, screwed it up, threw it away. Just like...

The washing machine sloshes and whirls the bloody clothes and hits the high notes a juddering spin. A busy day and I’ve dozed off on the couch. The...

The French, the Goddamn Europeans, every soul of a man living on that continent could make my knees go weak. You see them in magazines, perfectly...

The story so far... Max shares an apartment and a relationship with Aeriol. Max's confidant Geoffrey is no longer around, he's gone overseas, to Brazil. Jules also shares their apartment in a kind of unofficial fashion , he's always there, but he rests a mystery. Alex turns out to be the brother of Nads (Nadia). Having slept with Aeriol, he confides in him that he fancies Max. They end up in bed together, Alex and Max, but nothing happened. Nadia has a relationship with May (Mayaan), who also has a thing for Aeriol, which I guess makes Aeriol bi, and May too. Outside of these complex relationships there is Reuben, but he's also planning to move overseas, leaving behind Davy. But who exactly is Davy and why does this boy seem to fascinate Max? Our hero , is that really Max, or Aeriol, or even Jules? They've all been getting high, smoking dope, chanting in an ashram, getting off, and almost getting busted in an early morning raid. There are others too, Chester and his son Michael, whose apparently a dream, but then there's the reality of all that. Which just about brings us up to date and to this next chapter aptly titled Magic Mushrooms. Now read on...

The Songwriter Chapter 14 A Hard Call It was October 1991 and I got off the plane in Sydney . Life had a new meaning for me now and every day was a...