Tale one - Dead in a Ditch - Alfred's Tale
Set in 1999, in England, Alfred of indeterminable age is lying at the bottom of a very icy cold and deep muddy ditch hidden by brambles. He has been knocked into this place by a car that sped off not stopping. He is sure that broken bones aside, this was to be his last resting place. As this realisation hits home he begins to review and play out the high and lows of his mostly misspent life in glorious colour whilst his body succumbs to hypothermia.
What will he reveal? Will he be found or his Journal? Will the letter he wrote to his sisters get to them before all evidence of his life is lost? These and many more questions will be raised but maybe not all will be answered in this first novel of five. For sure, time certainly has some tales to tell.
樂天KOBO
