Hoopte Gobbledygook
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It is 2 AM in the dead of the night. The residents of Swington should be fast asleep. There is a curfew in place due to the flu pandemic. It should be another routine night. Except it isn't. The immigrant Rukus siblings have other plans. They have woken up the whole neighbourhood. Dawn is fast approaching. And they are not making any sense.
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Hoopte Gobbledygook - Sebastian Livaracci
INTRODUCTION
Hang around Swington shoe-shiners and ask them the origin of the name Swington. They will spin you a tale. The tale that they will tell will end up with the Swington Estates having been named after a swing that was completely made of lead. They will chuckle as they tell you that that swing weighed a ton. The Swington Estates are actually named after Reverend Albert Swington, an early advocate of Protestantism. The New Swington Estate is a middle-class suburb.It has lush greenery and well-maintained tarmacked and marked interconnecting roads. It has well kempt hedges. The Swingtonites love their routine. They have low key weekdays and effervescent weekends. They love dog walking and strolling in the park. They call their neighbours’ by the first names. If push comes to shove, they could spit out the surnames. But routine can be dangerous. Routine can disappear-sometimes at 2 am on a Monday. The Rukus siblings were in the neighbourhood.
The Rukus siblings were among the immigrants that were relocated to the settlement. The Swingtonites know the settlement well. Not so long ago some of them inhabited what was once on the settlement on the other side of the tarmac road. They don’t like to admit it, but they now live on the New Swington Estate. The Old Swington Estate having been demolished to pave way for new high rise apartments. That did not happen, leaving behind an abandoned settlement. It currently houses rows and rows of reinforced plastic and wooden Prefabs. The government identified it for its illegal-immigrants relocation and temporary housing project.
This gave it the thinking space it needed. The immigrants had caught it offguard. They were discovered in a ship detained at the port for having false paperwork. This settlement also made for effective monitoring and tracing. The problem with bureaucratic thinking is that it takes time. It did not help that the flu pandemic was ravaging nationwide.
PROLOGUE
Foreign country or not. Sometimes men need to blow off some steam. To release the pressure. To keep it from devouring them whole. It is essential. That is if they are to move forward and explore life. It is bad enough that you are in another country, it is worse when you do not know anyone in that country. It is worst when you cannot speak the same language as anyone else in that country. So, you are left with the two other miserable beings unlucky enough to be in the same boat as you. So much for the beginnings of an escape to a new life. Then you discover the forgotten bottle of high-grade absinthe you had stashed. This was the problem that big brother Rukus found himself in. The steam begged to be released…
Chapter 1
THE SETTLEMENT
0200HRS
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