Bradley Wynne

A showcase from the Way-Back-When and the Come-What-May.

Fictional narratives in fact and in thought.

The Chute

If those in your care faced slaughter and you had the chance to flee, what would compel you stand and fight?

Genres: Magic realism/political thriller. 107,000 words. *

Byng Marshall knew the promise of a landlocked sea had been yet another VoteOne lie. There had never been an Outback expanse of a size to warrant such a name; it had been a folly in the barrage of uncertainty that had flowed from war. We are a land between seas, the propaganda trumpeted, a sanctuary between vast unknowns. But the so-called Inland Sea on which the former doctor from Psych Hospital #7 now gazed, was little more than an insipid lake. Actually, it was a string of them connected by a sluggish river, besmirched with forests of water-logged dead things, eucalypts mainly, on which black birds wailed as if summoning up supper from the brown and yellow depths.

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