{"id":1727,"date":"2013-04-02T06:25:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T06:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:45:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T02:45:38","slug":"chapter-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laughingcloudrecords.co.nz\/nerverf\/2013\/04\/02\/chapter-six\/","title":{"rendered":"chapter six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily,&nbsp;a&nbsp;sea shanty which,&nbsp;in a remarkable way,&nbsp;appears to&nbsp;summarise the adventures of Kimbell so far has recently been recovered from a 114 Brook St,&nbsp;Toronto second storey bedroom drawer. Undoubtedly, the lost Chapters 3&nbsp;&amp; 4 contain all the musical annotations necessary for a possible rendition of this song, together with a link to a video set somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><em>And&nbsp;at that very moment<br \/>\n\tPasha kissed the&nbsp;elbow<br \/>\n\tof the&nbsp;&lsquo;Four Rivers&rsquo; console<br \/>\n\tand&nbsp;set off&nbsp;an enormous<br \/>\n\texplosion outside the world renowned<br \/>\n\tValentin Research Facility<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;I aint dead yet,&quot;&nbsp;mumbled<br \/>\n\tKimbell as he slowly<br \/>\n\tgot to his feet. The<br \/>\n\tcontrol room was empty<br \/>\n\tthe air a toxic&nbsp;haze so&nbsp;thick it&#039;s a<br \/>\n\twonder any self respecting physicist<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">&nbsp;<\/span>could breathe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He reached for the Gasman<br \/>\n\twith his one good hand&nbsp;and as<br \/>\n\tconsciousness faded he<br \/>\n\tswallowed the certain fact that<br \/>\n\ta chain reaction&nbsp;in the<br \/>\n\tair&nbsp;even then was<br \/>\n\tengulfing the planet at&nbsp;some<br \/>\n\tspeed them robots wouldn&rsquo;t believe<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Looking to the north from a<br \/>\n\tbroken down verandah<br \/>\n\tBelinda&nbsp;and her kids watched the<br \/>\n\tgreat dark churning mass of cloud<br \/>\n\tcome rolling&nbsp;across the horizon<br \/>\n\tthinking all the time they&rsquo;d soon be dead<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And&nbsp;next thing they&rsquo;re floating<br \/>\n\tin a&nbsp;six foot wide flying saucer<br \/>\n\tthat was made of some undiscovered<br \/>\n\tmetal&nbsp;and was open to the<br \/>\n\tair and heading down the gravel<br \/>\n\troad right past the old milking shed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She noticed right then that the<br \/>\n\trailings needed painting&nbsp;and the<br \/>\n\tpoplar trees were ever so<br \/>\n\tdelicately waving. Her young<br \/>\n\tchildren seemed accustomed to such<br \/>\n\tsmoothness in the field that the<br \/>\n\tsystem switched to manual<br \/>\n\tand&nbsp;the light blinking orange turned to red<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kimbell opened his eyes looking<br \/>\n\tup at the face of some<br \/>\n\twoman he thought he might&rsquo;ve known<br \/>\n\ta long time ago when he was just<br \/>\n\ta boy on some middle-of-nowhere<br \/>\n\tfarm&nbsp;and she was just a little girl<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And&nbsp;at this very moment there&rsquo;s a<br \/>\n\tbreak in the transcript (we can<br \/>\n\tonly surmise what may or<br \/>\n\tmay not have happened<br \/>\n\tto the entities in question and<br \/>\n\tbecause of which a number of rumours swirled)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Abbie snatched&nbsp;a&nbsp;bug from the<br \/>\n\tlimb of some shrub&nbsp;and she<br \/>\n\tput it between her teeth as she<br \/>\n\thaunched down over Kimbell&nbsp;and said<br \/>\n\t&quot;You still alive mister<br \/>\n\thusband, looks like you&nbsp;been taken<br \/>\n\tover by some poisonous plant, or are<br \/>\n\tyou just one less cicada in this world?&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Van Dyke crystal had a<br \/>\n\tmind of its own. Abbie never<br \/>\n\tknew if it just thought of something<br \/>\n\tclever or all the time it had some<br \/>\n\tplan in the pipeline so<br \/>\n\tunlikely that it made sense<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The air was properly twinkling as the<br \/>\n\tGasman gave up thinking and<br \/>\n\tPasha flapped her wings like a<br \/>\n\tparrot does when she&rsquo;s got something to<br \/>\n\tsay but what it is is better<br \/>\n\tsaid with some&nbsp;righteous show of clumsiness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The plot being so simple&nbsp;and yet so<br \/>\n\tself-referential with the<br \/>\n\tcharacters beguiling&nbsp;and the<br \/>\n\tdialogue chic-retro, Linda<br \/>\n\tknew she had a winner as she<br \/>\n\tsaved the final version to a<br \/>\n\tfolder whose title was &ldquo;If<br \/>\n\tOnly I Knew How The Story Ends&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luckily,&nbsp;a&nbsp;sea shanty which,&nbsp;in a remarkable way,&nbsp;appears to&nbsp;summarise the adventures of Kimbell so far has recently been recovered from a 114 Brook St,&nbsp;Toronto second storey bedroom drawer. 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