HINDSIGHT — The CONTENTS Page
(This is the CONTENTS page.)
A second-draft pandemic novel serialized more-or-less weekly.
Will and Juss move to the country to escape city (and family) stresses, to rebuild a life broken by people they loved. A small house with a bit of a view, a bit of land, and a bit of privacy. They aren’t ready for a pandemic, or any of what follows.
This is the CONTENTS PAGE, a handy way for you to navigate through the novel.
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Chapter 1 — January 2020 — A Time of Blissful Ignorance
“A start inspires deliberate hope,
The wilful ignorance of the scope
Of looming change grooming us,
building, and grinding to dust”
3 — How Many Chickens Is Enough Chickens?
BTS — A Time of Blissful Ignorance
Chapter 2 — February 2024
“Hope, helpless against unwelcome change,
Heavy burdens borne only in name,
A duty-bound complicity,
To embrace new realities”
Chapter 3 — March 2038
“Of long-passed milestones,
Echoing half tones
Carried on dancing winds
Away from familiar things.”
Chapter 4 — April 2020
“Old equations lie disproven
In sine waves of satisfaction:
Hope, despair, do, don’t drown,
Learn, forget, get up, fall down.”
Chapter 5 — May 2024
“Rise sooner, fall less, take it,
But question how much that is.
Let hurdles fall where they will,
Face the new day, good or ill.”
Chapter 6 — June 2038
“Pull back, fearing the new goals,
Ignore the pain of the old,
Break the mold that formed you, forced
You to respawn, coerced you.”
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BTS —
Chapter 7 — July 2020
“Fleeting battles ‘gainst the light,
Dark wins only for a night.
Yin the victor, yang the doomed
Old cycles of bust and boom.”
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BTS —
Chapter 8 — August 2024
“You build the pieces up when
Old wholes lie broken again,
And keys unlock hope’s kernel.
Eternal or infernal, all things turn,”
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BTS —
Chapter 9 — September 2038
“Burn away in frustration,
Not resigned to violation,
So when you get up you find
That you fall so you can climb.”
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Chapter 10 — October 2020
“The fall, the climb, the changing
Tide, the hole, their shapes flowing,
In and out, the ebb forbodes,
Clenches hard and tightly holds”
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BTS —
Chapter 11 — November 2024
“Sherds strewn on this bitter clay,
Bitter horrors hitting home
Harder, deeper, letting down
Your guard to truths you must own,”
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BTS —
Chapter 12 — December 2038
“Hard lessons more clearly felt.
The breath to start, imparting help,
Understanding finally forms
When you fall and get up once more.”
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You know you get extra points if I have to read through tears, right? You really know how to make your audience feel all the feels. Thank you for this. A reminder to treasure what really matters in life.
ASTOUNDING!