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Loads of Trouble
17-year-old Izzy can read minds. Her doctors believe she’s crazy, 'crackers' they say, and have locked Izzy away. Her twin, Elliot, knows her mind-reading superpower is cool, but no one but Izzy listens to him, because he’s dead.
As is her guardian, her older brother, Dougal.
Dougal was Izzy's hero. He was big and tall and believed Izzy when she told him she could read minds. 'Keep it a secret,' he told her. 'People don't like different.'
Dougal should know as he liked boys and in Albion Minor that was frowned upon. Dougal ran a Private firm that protected the LGBTQ community from harm, but when he was murdered homophobia was suspected, indeed feared. Who is going to protect the community from the homophobes, cleverly disguised as the local Cricket Club, from harm, from persecution, and from the Friday night bashings the cricket club called practice?
Izzy, that's who.
First, she must escape from the Asylum. Second, she must convince Dougal's transman business partner, Robert (a man with super strength), that she can read minds and will use that power to discover Dougal's killer. And third, she must learn how to investigate, take a punch, bend steel, and catch a bullet in her bare hands.
As is her guardian, her older brother, Dougal.
Dougal was Izzy's hero. He was big and tall and believed Izzy when she told him she could read minds. 'Keep it a secret,' he told her. 'People don't like different.'
Dougal should know as he liked boys and in Albion Minor that was frowned upon. Dougal ran a Private firm that protected the LGBTQ community from harm, but when he was murdered homophobia was suspected, indeed feared. Who is going to protect the community from the homophobes, cleverly disguised as the local Cricket Club, from harm, from persecution, and from the Friday night bashings the cricket club called practice?
Izzy, that's who.
First, she must escape from the Asylum. Second, she must convince Dougal's transman business partner, Robert (a man with super strength), that she can read minds and will use that power to discover Dougal's killer. And third, she must learn how to investigate, take a punch, bend steel, and catch a bullet in her bare hands.
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Published June 13, 2020
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Roo I. MacLeod
11 books200 followersRoo I MacLeod was born in a bush hospital in Australia on a hot, humid day and fought three doctors, two midwives and the utilities type person against his entry into the world (his mother’s words).
School was a bore and work a chore (his words), so he traveled. Australia by Beetle, Tasmania by bike, Europe by train and Africa by bus. The holiday ended in England when he met an English rose. Alas the petals peeled away and thorns was all he got. (his words).
No More Heroes was conceived in a quaint English church when he took shelter from the rain and doubled the mourners for a funeral. He was invited to pray and sing a few tunes and chuck dirt at the coffin.
He now lives in a squat in West Sussex and is barred from two of the five pubs in town and vows to antagonize the remaining four pub Landlords by the end of the year.
He has two children from a previous unsuccessful attempt to cohabit.
School was a bore and work a chore (his words), so he traveled. Australia by Beetle, Tasmania by bike, Europe by train and Africa by bus. The holiday ended in England when he met an English rose. Alas the petals peeled away and thorns was all he got. (his words).
No More Heroes was conceived in a quaint English church when he took shelter from the rain and doubled the mourners for a funeral. He was invited to pray and sing a few tunes and chuck dirt at the coffin.
He now lives in a squat in West Sussex and is barred from two of the five pubs in town and vows to antagonize the remaining four pub Landlords by the end of the year.
He has two children from a previous unsuccessful attempt to cohabit.
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August 4, 2021
Be warned: It's not a standard private eye story. It's a world where the army is in charge; it's post-pandemic (still some masks) and LGBTQ are at risk.
Izzy doesn't know why her twin died, her parents died... and now her older brother, Dougal, has been murdered.
Her dead twin is in her head trying to give her advice - But is he just a symptom of mental illness? That's what her doctors say. The doctors don't know that when she takes her blue pills, she can read their minds.
Izzy wants to find out what happened to Dougal and stay out of the asylum.
Complicated and enthralling.
Izzy doesn't know why her twin died, her parents died... and now her older brother, Dougal, has been murdered.
Her dead twin is in her head trying to give her advice - But is he just a symptom of mental illness? That's what her doctors say. The doctors don't know that when she takes her blue pills, she can read their minds.
Izzy wants to find out what happened to Dougal and stay out of the asylum.
Complicated and enthralling.
October 23, 2020
An amusing good short story! I did enjoy this!
April 11, 2022
I'm not sure what happened to my review fir this went but. .. I enjoyed this alot. I love the unique world and characters that aren't cookie cutter. Great fun.
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