Chailkan’s ‘experiment’ on the twins was certainly a cruel one but in many ways the results were surprising. Some readers have asked for details of how the 2 girls and _________ from the video shop ‘got along’ as it were and which of them was the horniest and most sexually adventurous and demanding of new forms of pleasure etc in later life. However this is a good book and one that respects privacy and it is not an intention here to cater to the prurient and voyeuristic needs of that class of reader who, lacking wild erotic events in their own life, would wish that they could read of them here.

James

James

OLD DAYS

It was November and cold. James thought he did not like a night-picnic and in the hurry to get into the car when the thunder really started he dropped KANGAROO and no one could find him in the dark. So then KANGAROO was lost and James only had DEAD SOLDIER to play with.

For the night-picnic Dad had stretched the blanket on the concrete near them old trees and the hi-rises with shell holes in them what looked like a skull and they all sat and Harry cried and Olivia saw that scary ghosts were stealing crisps from them when they looked away. That was when the thunder started.

They ate by the lite of car headlights and somehow pretended not to notice that Dad was slowly slowly slowly losing the plot.

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In the car journey to home James said he was frightened.

Dad asked him ‘why’.

And James said ‘the dark’.

And then it was all quiet in the car and you could hear the rain and you could hear the moaning sound that DEAD SOLDIER makes sometimes when no one plays with him and James waited a long time for someone to say something and he waited and he waited and he waited and no one did.

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They drove over Scary Mountain, thru the woods and the ‘sound of trees’ ©.

James asked: ‘Who can sing a song to un-frighten me?’

Dad didn’t say nothing.

And Olivia was quiet. And Harry was too little to really understand the question. And Mum was long gone. And there was no one else in the car.

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After the night picnic things calmed down a bit (approx 1 month) and in any case Dad was back at work, in a big white building with long corridors that was always smelling of disinfectant (* probably a hospital or morgue) and the kids went back to school.

School was more corridors and also concrete and metal detectors, strange rulers and rationing, learning songs and actions to go with them and J made a picture every day.

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Pictures:

Planets.

A jungle.

Gunship. A robot on fire.

Space vehicle.

Sky.