Just to change the tone – here is the next chapter in the other new novel I’m working on. Danny’s story or 301 Green Lanes.
Chapter 6 – Mr Rose and the rent book
‘You had better come and get the details sorted,’ Mr Rose said, collaring Danny as he came in the front door with a bag of shopping. Danny was taken aback. Suzie had thought that she had Mr Rose taped but all the time it was the other way round. Mr Rose had seen right through them all. He had not been taken in for a minute.
Sheepishly he followed Mr Rose into the front room once again. This time the light wasn’t quite so magical but the stain-glass still glowed. He sat down while Mr Rose took down the ledger. He found the right paper and carefully scratched out Suzie and Charlotte’s names.
Danny furnished him with the full details and he filled it in with his neat hand.
‘I don’t like my rooms empty,’ he remarked, closing the ledger and putting it back in its place on the shelf.
Danny nodded meekly and felt suitably embarrassed.
‘And I’m a good judge of character,’ Mr Rose added, looking at Danny very pointedly.
Danny slunk out and back up the flights of stairs to his flat. It was a humiliating way to gain possession, but this was his flat now. It was all his. That was official. He could relax.
Danny felt like shouting for joy. But he didn’t. Instead he sat himself down in his armchair, flicked two bars of the fire on and rolled a big jay.
This was his home. He was master of all he surveyed and now he could actually set about making it his own. He began planning. There was much to be done.
Selected books and novels:
Anecdotes-Weird-Science-Writing-Ramblings – a book of anecdotes mainly from the sixties and other writing.
More Anecdotes – following the immense popularity of the first volume I produced a second
Goofin’ with the cosmic freaks – a kind of On the Road for the sixties
The book of Ginny – a novel
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