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... Because The Past Is Never Past
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2014
231 pages
978-1-78279-680-0 (ISBN)
Description
TWO MEN AND A WOMAN. 800 YEARS ... IT ISN'T OVER WHEN IT'S OVER.
It is 2050 in a cold town in northern Europe. The war has ended but the streets are dangerous. Three lovers, Stephen, Suzanna and Rokas, live under the shadow of the gun-king, Porphyrian, but are driven by their common history and unfinished business during an earlier age of darkness, the Cathar Inquisition of the 13th century.
And between the dystopian worlds of the 13th and 21st centuries? ... Other times and other places, stories and sideways glances. Because the past is never past. Lives loop. The direction of travel is circular. What do we bring with us when we arrive? What is progress? What is death?
It is 2050 in a cold town in northern Europe. The war has ended but the streets are dangerous. Three lovers, Stephen, Suzanna and Rokas, live under the shadow of the gun-king, Porphyrian, but are driven by their common history and unfinished business during an earlier age of darkness, the Cathar Inquisition of the 13th century.
And between the dystopian worlds of the 13th and 21st centuries? ... Other times and other places, stories and sideways glances. Because the past is never past. Lives loop. The direction of travel is circular. What do we bring with us when we arrive? What is progress? What is death?
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MICHAEL TOBERT lives in Scotland and has been writing ever since he stopped imagining he looked good in a suit. Now, he bakes the second best sourdough in the country and spends more time looking in than looking out.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Northern Europe, Mid-21st Century
- Polotti
- Friends
- Suzanna
- Among the Cathars, Languedoc, Mid-13th Century
- Northern Europe, Mid-21st Century
- Rokas
- Rokas' first short story: Entanglement
- Suzanna: moving on
- Stephen: at the factory
- The cabin
- The cabin (continued)
- Jazz Club
- Rokas' second short story: Escape
- Among the Cathars, Languedoc, Mid-13th Century
- Northern Europe, Mid-21st Century
- Rokas' third short story: Release
- Suzanna: loves
- Suzanna: loves (continued)
- Porphyrian
- The Trial of Rokas
- Rokas escapes
- Porphyrian's proposal
- Stephen and Suzanna
- Rokas' fourth short story: Pursuit
- Among the Cathars, Languedoc, Mid-13th Century
- Northern Europe, Mid-21st Century
- Rokas' fifth short story: Return
- The Journey
- Resumption
- Moments
- Rokas' sixth short story: Death
- The last lament
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Also by Michael Tobert
