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Stafford Sanders. Bloody Colonials
(Extract from the theme song to the intended feature film of Bloody Colonials)
Prologue: THE HORSEMAN COMETH
1. LAND HO
2. EMPIRE BUILDERS
3. FIRST CONTACT
4. THICKER THAN WATER
5. SHAMELESS
6. GREAT EXPLORATIONS
7. POWER AND POSITION
8. SADDLED
9. AN UNRESPONSIVE NOTE
10. THE BUSINESS OF THE COLONY
11. HALLORAN HISTORY
12. A GRAND OCCASION
13. NOT-SO-GREAT EXPLORATIONS
14. THE PLOT SICKENS
15. FURTIVE ENDEAVOURS
16. TAKEN FOR GRANTED
17. DEAD RECKONING
18. ALL HELL
19. THE FINAL PIECE
20. TALLY HO
21. THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS
22. FULL CIRCLE
23. THE HANG OF THE PLACE
THE WRITER
Отрывок из книги
A thunder of hooves comes carving at daybreak through the roll and roar of ocean swell crashing against high cliffs.
Wild irregular sandstone crags, they are. Laid down by eons of sedimentary deposit, which ageless motion of wind and wave have scooped and swirled like massive spoonfuls of caramel ice. Far below, huge chunks of this rock, sheared away by the relentless erosion, have crashed to the shelf beneath. There they now lie, like fallen behemoths being slowly consumed in the jagged, frothing jaws of the animal ocean which roars and gnashes and hurls itself repeatedly against the feet of the weatherworn giants.
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Polly stands, stares at the ship for a moment, removing her bonnet to swat a stray fly from her cheek. About bleedin’ time too, she thinks. Now maybe we might get some little rise in the food rations at last. Maybe they’ve brought over some more pigs, an’ all.
She turns, leaving the bucket and scrap tin for the moment where they lie in the shallow heath. She gathers her washing basket in both hands, and turns again towards the clothesline.
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