Thank you Priya Gohil for your pre-order and your unstinting support x
PDAs to Karen Moore, chef and haberdasher extraordinaire (she's taken pigs in blankets to the next level) for her pre-ordering support
Big thanks to Sean Thomas (aka SK Tremayne, author of The Ice Twins) for his kindly pre-order do-dah
I've uploaded the fifth chapter if you want to take a look...
Massive thanks to Phil Marshman, my first, second and third pre-order customer. Gawd bless.
‘Aerial burial!’ yelled the man, imagining the launching of his lifeless corpse into outer space.
His considerable bulk was being rocked, about to be hauled upwards inside what was the tight fit of an antiquated wooden lift car – the projectile coffin of his imaginings; his pine overcoat, his pine spacesuit, as it were.
Lift off.
‘Graveyard declutter!’ he bellowed, seizing on another thought. Might outer space be the answer to overcrowded cemeteries in the modern age? Much . . .
‘Aerial burial!’ yelled the man, imagining the launching of his lifeless corpse into outer space.
His considerable bulk was being rocked, about to be hauled upwards inside what was the tight fit of an antiquated wooden lift car – the projectile coffin of his imaginings; his pine overcoat, his pine spacesuit, as it were.
Lift off.
‘Graveyard declutter!’ he bellowed, seizing on another thought. Might outer space be the answer to overcrowded cemeteries in the modern age? Much . . .
Big thanks to Steve Bemmer for pre-ordering. Steve is a tour de force cyclist and recyclist (he traces back his routes and picks up any rubbish he may have discarded)