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By Kim Zip

By 30, Hubert Dowel ranked officially amongst of the oppressed of modern America. A court - what kind of court had no jury he wasn't sure, but here was one - calculated his income according to his peak wages - long gone now - and he neither felt inclined to, nor was encouraged to make any argument for his own welfare to be taken even slightly into consideration when state flunkeys set a crippling level of tax to the children they disbarred him from ever seeing again, for no reason ever given except, as his broken-backed attorney confided, his gender. The Hubster was left working a ten hour day six days a week and earning enough for supermarket food and second hand clothes. His people were long passed on. No rich sibling stepped in to help. So unable to face the prospect of the dark bar where the fools he eschewed in early life sat hopelessly drinking and congratulating themselves on their wretched lives, he'd gone into the Arts.......

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kim Zip
• Release date: Feb 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311479891

Kim Zip

Kim Zip is a multi-media artist. Kim lives and works from London, Cornwall and San Francisico. For more info just Google 'Kim Zip'.

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Fridge

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2014 Kim Zip

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Eddie Lomax leant sideways into an outsize condenser microphone and shot a sly look at his dumb blonde co-presenter.

'Well I don't know about you..but I'm getting HOT in here'

Sabina grinned widely, punched a cursor twice and stared child-like at the unfolding patent icon.

A look of simple satisfaction spread over her shiny face as immediately the opening bars of a famous pop chorus blared out.

To her left Zac and Bob Dover, the latter always plagued by the knowledge he had to get off the program and go solo soon before they tore him to pieces, started raising cat-calls.

'Ah I gots to chill'

Sabina grinned wider and scrolled down to three signature seconds of old school Hip Hop.

Behind the production screen, Martin Hudson slowly closed and re-opened his