The Revenge List

By Juniper Williams

Winning the lottery is the Big Dream of a lot of people. But for Michael Thatcher it isn't even on his horizon, not even in the most secret of all his secret fantasies. For him the lottery is for mugs and fools. He is content to live his own life, living below the radar of the authorities making a living from his various 'schemes', and government benefits.

But one day he comes into possession of a ticket that changes everything for the self-confessed 'unlovable rogue.' He is suddenly able to put his life and his wants into perspective. Everyone has some kind of list they want to work through don't they? For some it is a 'bucket list.' Others have the 'What I Will Do If I Come Into Money List.' For Michael it is a list with only one name on it.

It is the revenge list and that one name is Garry Londis - the school bully from his early teenage years...
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Juniper Williams
• Release date: May 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393914952

Juniper Williams

Juniper Williams was born in Snowdonia, but was brought up in rural North Yorkshire. She studied at the universities of York and Edinburgh before spending two years backpacking around Australia, America, and South-East Asia. She has worked variously as an Information Analyst, barmaid, waitress, and (occasional) TV/Film extra. She now does freelance IT work and divides her writing time between her short stories and her first novel 'The Daughters of Audrey Hepburn.' She lives in Yorkshire, in a house she is renovating herself using YouTube videos Her hobbies are travel, rock climbing, and winemaking. She has a cat named Morticia (Mo for short!).

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The Revenge List

Juniper Williams

Published by Juniper Williams, 2019.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

THE REVENGE LIST

First edition. May 13, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Juniper Williams.

ISBN: 978-1393914952

Written by Juniper Williams.

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Lists.

We all have them, don’t we?

The main one for most people seems to be the so-called ‘bucket-list’; all those things you intend to do before you die. Travel always seems to be popular, whether it’s the Seven Wonders of the World, the Northern Lights or swimming with dolphins. Everyone seems to want to sign off after the trip of a lifetime.

Some things are more realistic than others depending on how much time you think or know you have. And, of course, how much money you’ve got to spend. I mean, there’s no point in plotting a luxury six-month cruise around the Great Cities of the World if you only have a few weeks or can't afford it. So necessarily, the good bucket list must take account of practical circumstances.

Which brings me to the second list; that’s The Things You Would Do If You Suddenly Come Into a Lot of Money list. Now obviously there is more scope for fantasy on this list, more freedom to let your mind roam a little. You can travel to where you like, when you like and swim with whatever you like. But you can also throw in sleeping with Uma Thurman for example or buying a football club (not premier League!). Unlike dying, you secretly know you won’t ever come into that kind of money, so there is nothing to hold you back. You might as well keep the dream well stoked up in the front of your mind. But deep down you know it’s never going to happen. So, dream on, yes - dream of sleeping with Uma. You can even add in Julia and Nicole as well.

Dream of doing them all in one night. (Naturally, with the latter scenario you must also build into the fantasy that they would all somehow need the money and be somehow disposed to accepting your cold hard cash for their charms. Unlikely I know, but realistically there is more chance of them all being on their uppers than you coming into that kind of money.)

See what I mean about fantasy? The money list is an exercise in dreaming Something to keep you occupied through the long hours of your humdrum, dull, non-moneyed life. So we never write them down do we? We just keep them floating around, something to take out and play with now and again. When it gets down to it, most ‘lists’ will be much of a muchness. There are only so many unfulfilled-yet-potentially-fillable fantasies a person can hold on to.

But then – but THEN - there are those items you think about a lot but never really talk about. The ones you hug to yourself in the dead hours of the night.

These are those wrongs and injustices, large and small, which have been done to you during your life up to the current point. It is a bit of a combination of the bucket and the money lists and is made up of those fuckers you would want to get even with if you were a) dying or b) so rich you couldn’t possibly spend it all.

Yes, you beat me to it, it’s the revenge list.

Well, let me say that my list in the case of terminal illness and coming into money is the very same list. They both have just a single entry: Gary Londis. Or as I have grown to think of him, Gary fucking Londis.

He is also connected to the latter list by