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Diary of a Novel
...The mural above the terracotta arches of the former cinema proclaimed in pinks and purples, lapiz and gold: ‘Leave your mind behind! Evolve! £3.20 adults, £1.75 children, pensioners and the unemployed. Tea room and book shop.’
He turned back to the window, resumed his meditations. Reaching into his pocket, he pulled out a sherbet lemon and crammed it into his mouth, crunching it to powder, swallowing it down, eating another, then another. He was consuming sugar at an extraordinary rate; the changing-time would soon be upon him. It couldn’t have come at a worse time, with the altered-ones such a hot item in the news - He had been over-eager, impatient, careless, it wouldn’t be long before journalists started to piece the story together and what then? He would have to shut down the show and lay low while he sat out the Time of Shed and then move on, somewhere far away this time, but where? Somewhere with warmer oceans, with white sands and turquoise seas, somewhere that would feel closer to home than this cold, grey northern shore…
By all the Gods, Hermes40 was a dreadful writer. Gordon right clicked to save the hideous document; he'd read it later, perhaps in the morning, when he'd regained sufficient strength. He ran a palm over his face, wiped away the sweat that was running down his cheeks, feeling the wetness at his lip, tasting blood, another nose bleed - maybe his brain was attempting to escape the horrors of Hermes40’s fanfiction, fleeing his body by the nearest exit.