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Louis’s 2024 Year in Books
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Louis Wiid
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“An old man, thin as a rake, with cheap Clicks Pharmacy reading glasses perched on his nose, was leaning on the counter, paging through Die Burger newspaper. When he looked up, Leon involuntary took a step back. The man had the most intense blue eyes, strikingly contrasting his tanned bony skull. But it wasn’t the colour of the eyes that stopped Leon in his tracks, it was the expression on the man’s face. His eyes were limp, blank, incarcerated by an unfocused daze. He stared straight through Leon into, what felt to Leon as if into a vast abyss of nothingness.”
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“To Isabella, Leon was only a good friend providing a fringe benefit, like a company car or expense account. The arrangement between Leon and Isabella had comfortably (at least in her professional opinion as a lawyer) developed into one where she, always the workaholic with no time for serious relationships, had chosen him as her “love” interest. Despite Leon a few pay grades lower, she did found him fit and proper to share body fluids with from time to time. She found him an amusing toy, like a mouse where she was the cat, glutted with food that just wanted to play and not necessarily wanting to kill her prey.”
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“The unexpected sound of laughter drew stares from people hurrying past. Office types, dressed in shades of black. The only difference in appearance and sour expressions of these 9-to-5s to funeral directors was the cost of the suits, skirts and shoes. High above the circumference of the steel, glass and concrete of the atrium and its engulfing thirty floor construction resembled a gargantuan tomb, with worms (a.k.a. office workers) morphing and interfusing, centering on unearthing the wealth of currency secreted in the abdomen of the leviathan that comprised No. 1 Quebec Square, Canary Wharf.”
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“Today was his thirty-first birthday, Valentine’s Day. None of his friends were in the pub, trying to impress the missus or girlfriend, taking them out for dinner. There were no flowers in the bar to celebrate Valentine’s, no complimentary chocolates on the counter, nothing, just hard drinking by the down-and-outs, seated and separated out evenly across the place.”
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“Despite the words, "Strip Club" prominently appearing on the signboard, the strippers hanged up their G-strings long ago. For Eldon, overseeing a bunch of bitchy females, who pocketed more cash playing tricks once they left his premises, was one too many complication in managing his vast business empire.”
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Is was an honour and privilege to provide you with a home during your nearly 9 man-years on this earth. You taught me so many things, with a good and patient heart. Above all, unconditional love and loyalty.
Last night, after you’ve dutifully done your business outside, you checked on your family, one by one, to see we’re all ok, you decided it’s time. And then you quietly left us, in your favourite spot, snuggled next to me on the couch.
I will miss you, lying on the floor in front of my desk, guarding and motivating me to finish my Novel, sometimes lost in your vivid dreams, running sideways on the floor, yelping, even barking in that deep voice of yours. But you decided to give your physical heart a rest and join this new and wonderful world.
You were a good dog and will always be here with me, now more than ever.
Love,
Louis