by Jase Kovacs
From out of the darkness come other canoes. Just like mine. Four of them, drawing in close. Passing me in a line. In the lunar radiance I see my father at the helm of the first. The tiller tucked in the crook of his arm. A single white sternlight burning. He draws ahead and then at the helm of the second I see Mum and the third Jayden and the fourth is skippered by Katie. All four of them sailing in boats like mine. Small ships, stripped of technology and artifice. Sailing like in the old times. Stars and currents and wind. My family, leading me on, guiding me, through the night, towards Madau, my new home, the last home of humanity. They lead me on, four sternlights burning like stars, above them Venus hangs, and I follow my five stars on through the night and behind me comes the dawn.
When I wake, I remember the dream, perfect and complete. I lie there in the container, contemplating my providence and the line of events that brought me to this place. Everything in nature curved but time. The boy sleeping. Daylight leaking under the door.
Time to go to work.
THE END
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Also by Jase Kovacs: The Silent Circus
1941. The German blitzkrieg plunges into Eastern Europe.
Ten year old Ulis’ childhood ended the night the planes burnt his city to ashes.
As he flees Nazi death squads and Soviet partisans, he is driven deep into an ancient, malevolent forest, his only companion a fellow orphan named Lidyja.
Lost in an endless mire, they are rescued by the strange denizens of a circus hiding deep within the forest. For a while, Ulis and Lidyja think they are safe, having found a new family, a strange and peculiar family of Siamese twins and silent ape kings and freaks and mystics.
But the Ringmaster is dead and the children soon learn that the war outside holds no monopoly on horror.
The Silent Circus is a dark fable in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy. Bleak and evocatively written, it examines the price of survival through the eyes of a child.
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Also by Jase Kovacs: A Dirty Peace
A DIRTY PEACE takes us to Timor Leste, a fledgling nation still reeling from a brutal occupation by neighbouring Indonesia that left hundreds of thousands of people dead. Now, ten years after independence, the United Nations are preparing to withdraw their peacekeepers.
In this powder keg of old grudges and bad memories, four people hunt a murderer:
Nick, a former infantry officer haunted by a mistake he made in Afghanistan.
Elise, an aid worker healing from a personal tragedy.
Nestor, a child soldier lost in the country he fought to free.
Manasseh, a UN Police Officer forced to define himself by what he is not.
Their investigation plunges them deep into a web of international intrigue when Nick learns of a plot by Islamic terrorists to attack the UN peacekeepers.
Or does he? Caught between Australian spies, the United Nations and local police, they must examine their own pasts to discover the truth.
Poetic and haunting, A DIRTY PEACE draws from the deep tragic history of a beautiful land steeped in tradition and mystery and asks what happens when the war ends and the lustre of peace fades.
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About the Author
Jase Kovacs is a former infantry officer who now lives aboard an old sailing yacht in south east Asia with his partner, Jolene.
Together, they are the principle members of Team Labyrinth, a sailing conservation film making team that highlights local environmental issues and local heroes and gives them the publicity they deserve. By buying this book, you have helped Team Labyrinth continue its work.
Read more at Team Labyrinth’s site.