The Trial of Lucy Fa: Seven Days and Six Nights

By Pusch Commey

When two homeless men , Gugle and Twita, walk into the desert to work out a scheme, little did they know they were walking into THE TRIAL OF LUCY FA. And beyond that they would be appointed as the jurors. Their mind boggling experience increasingly gravitates towards the unknown. In a desperate escape to a mysterious nether lands, they come under the tutelage of Mama Sharifa, who does bad things and does them well. Is Lucy Fa guilty or not guilty?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Aug 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483505800

Pusch Commey

Ghanaian-born Pusch Komiete Commey is an award-winning Author, Advocate (Lawyer) of the High Court of South Africa, and a former Associate Editor of the UK- based New African Magazine. An expert on Africa and its histories, he has made several contributions to Radio, TV, and Newspapers around the world. Pusch, as he is popularly known, lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and still finds time to battle an AI in his favourite game – Chess.

Book preview

TAKE ME TO THE NETHER LANDS

TAKE ME TO THE LAND

OF FRIENDLY FIRES AND BURNING PASSION

TAKE ME TO THE NETHER LANDS

AND LET ME NEVER RETURN

LOVE IS PASSION, LIFE IS REASON

BUT PASSION OVERIDES REASON

TO SUSAN K

COPYRIGHT: PUSCH COMMEY

ISBN: 9781483505800

CAST

TWO HOMELESS MIDDLE AGED MEN (GUGLE AND TWITA)

JUDGE

JUDGE’S CLERK

PROSECUTOR

JOURNALIST

LUCY FA

PROFESSOR LAWLESS

HAWKER

THREE MEDIUMS

MAMA SHARIFA

MAMA HANNIFA

MAMA GUDI

ACTION TAKES PLACE IN ALTERNATING DAYLIGHT AND A MOONLIT NIGHT

DAY ONE

DAY TIME

DESERT

Enter two homeless men. Gugle, painted red and Twita, painted blue.

Twita: Where do we go from here?

Gugle: Anywhere, everywhere, nowhere.

Twita: Nowhere sounds like home. But really, does our journey make any sense?

Gugle: Of course, of course. Sometime ago John the Bee was a journeyman too. He travelled into the wilderness with a fine mission, and was rewarded with great quantities of locust and honey. He announced the coming of Jay Cee. For more than 2000 years Jay Cee is still the biggest celebrity around; number one. Always tops the charts. He has even threatened a comeback from retirement to sort out some pretenders. However there is no appointed day for his grand second coming. He will come like a thief in the night. What we are left with is certain uncertainty and uncertain certainty. Keeps everyone guessing, I guess. It’s open ended. Timeless.

Twita: And what will be our gain?

Gugle :Good times will follow us to end times. Let me illustrate. The story goes that Jay Cee at first found no light in a world full of darkness. The world had eyes but could not see, ears that did not hear, and no teeth to bite. The earth was without form and ideas. And that was more than 2000 years after the pyramids were built in Africa. Jay Cee then travelled everywhere, preaching on the mountains, on land, and on water. What was he selling? Hope.

Twita: Sure. Who wants to live a hopeless life? Like ours.

Gugle: That is the point. Jay Cee not only sold raw hope, he sold hope in the present, hope in the past, hope in the future, and hope into the unknown, with spice – fear . There shall be a fiery weeping and gnashing of teeth if you don’t buy the story. And as someone figured out, if you don’t have teeth, teeth will be provided. Hope is the same commodity politicians sell; hope of a better life. Other preachers sell hope of a better afterlife or both. It’s a powerful commodity. Add a fear factor; a bogeyman, fear