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LONG, WHITE AND BEAUTIFUL
By Jude Redmond
Legend had it that, at a now legendary wedding reception, the disabled Jude Redmond danced the night away with two Kenyan ladies. When told of the incident, he remembers nothing, Jude was disappointed to learn that they were in their seventies. Not long after this our known hapless fool has a remarkable stroke of luck.
Does he embrace this wonderful opportunity to improve his life? No.
Cocaine, intent and things long, white and beautiful mean that Jude is now taunting Fate.
In the last of A Deal With God trilogy no questions are answered but it is a laugh anyway. ‘Why do you have a Tigger tattooed on your arm?’
POETSTING
By Jude Redmond
DC Zoe Churchill has a lot to be happy about. A blossoming career in the Police Service she knew to be her vocation. She was in the honeymoon period of a brief fling with her handsome boss. She had no financial worries. She was beautiful, confident and in control. Or so she thought.
An operational failure forces Zoe to go undercover to save her career and she drops into a criminal world she could not have imagined. A world of respect, tolerance, community, open-mindedness, bravery in the face of tragedy, poetry and love.
As Zoe becomes embroiled in a glorious and passionate affair she has to make the dreaded choices between love and career, truth and deception, right and wrong.
BOUNCE
By Jude Redmond
I took the bus down the coast and went to the pub. I walked along the cliff where I found a bench. I drank much red wine and smoked a prince harry. Then I dove from the cliff; in the American parlance, ‘I am so out of here.’ Unfortunately I bounced. It happened in February and I woke in April. There is nothing worse than being in a hospital, knowing somehow that everyone around you is thinking, ‘Oh fuck.’
Since then I have tried to start again. This is the unreliable memoir of a journey to death and back.
Bounce is currently being serialised in The Kemptown Rag. www.kemptownrag.co.uk
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