Moonie World IV

By Robert E. Bob

Reader: you are holding the first of the Wonderful Moonie World EPICS.

A Moonie Mission is sent to rescue some children from a cult in remote Scandinavia.

So remote they don't even know about the pandemic.

It takes a whole book to find out what harpoons.

All this has got nothing to do with it; obviously.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CMD
• Release date: Oct 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781952046957

Robert E. Bob

Robert E Bob is a recluse and hard to pin down, but thankfully he has the help of his trusty assistant Princess Lubachenka to help with these stories.

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Language warning: this book contains some swearwords as well as instances of drug use and sexual references. To be read by adults to children.

For my grandson; A.A. the first.

If I could see not surfaces, but could express what lies beneath the skin; where the blood moves in fruit or head or stone, then I would know the one Essential, and my eyes when dead would give the worm no hollow food.

Mervyn Peake

Contents

The intro ducky

Moonie Mission Team AK1

Spacerocket’s Inflight.

Ptoinker-time

Contact

The Cult of the Doomsday Clock

Da goat he ate.

Bringing the family together for the first time.

A low buzz.

What just harpooned?

Glossary

The intro ducky

Greetings again devoted Reader.

- Welcome back into the fold with us, your faithful Moonie story-telling team.

Princess Lubachenka and myself are both excited and churred-up for the task ahead.

Greetings Princess; are we not excited and churred-up?

I believe so if that is what you have just said RB.

Say hello to our Reader, whydontcha.

Greetings Reader and we hope you enjoy the story.

- RB; before we start, I should have clarified this with you earlier but is always such rush with you; our Reader may not be aware of your health crisis during the last stories; do we need to go into any detail about your illness and recovery?

Princess; is that really necessary? It is a little embarrassing.

Don’t be silly RB; I shall bring everyone up to speed.

- Reader; please recall that at the end of Moonie World Three, even during the stories themselves, face to face with the Moonies in interview, Robitty Bob did suffer a scary medical event.

Correct Princess; it was scary; I cannot ever remember being quite so scared and confused before in my life. However; a minor personal mental health crisis seems piddling in the context of a global pandemic, wouldn’t you agree? So thank you for your concern Princess, but let us move on. I’m sure the reader is here for the story; am I right?

…

I hope you are not waiting for response RB.

Don’t be silly Princess.

…

I would like to reassure you Princess that this issue is now completely resolved.

So there is no further risk of mental health breakdown.

Correct Princess, and I must congratulate you on being such a stickler.

Stickler RB; what is meaning of?

Rather odd isn’t it Princess; and rather amusing also; your tendency to sound more and more Russian when you are trying to be controlling.

- Why do I feel like a nobbity little boy right now?

RB; this is badly spelt abstract rhetoric and you are overly defensive. We have right to be informed, and there is no shame in having mental health breakdown. I believe it is all rage right now to be open about mental health, especially in context of pandemic.

All rage eh; heh heh.

- Sounds like people with mental health problems are having a dance party.

I am being serious RB; we are starting brand new epic fairy tale story; you have riding lot on this; you need to be sure.

Quite right Princess; a heckavalot, I think;

- and let’s tell everyone shall we; Robitty Bob lost the plot, and we mean that literally don’t we?

- Well, not in this case.

So you are back to good health and you have no mental health issues further RB.

Quite, quite, as I have already assured you; I feel as if you are trying to shame me about my stressful event?

- Anyhow and heck Princess, it is not working; we have a story to unfold; if you are happy that you have discharged your duties as whistleblower.

There is of nothing to be ashamed RB; you were enormous under strain; it could happened have to anyone.

Thank you Princess; I feel better now; you Russians have such an empathetic nature.

- We can on move please now? Sheesh.

Very well RB; so; tell us about story of Doomsday Clock cult. It is a very interesting name for story.

Very well but Princess you are jumping ahead of us all. We shall have to wait and see about the cult.

Well; depends what you think is scary Princess; some wee chilli-kits are used to being frightened; that’s even what they look for in a story.

- Things have changed these days Princess; I mean crikey; what about this pandemic? This makes a whole nuther meaning of scary, n’est ce pas? The world is a different place altogether now that we have this spectre in our lives.

- Some would say we are in the extinction age, and they were saying that even before the pandemic hit. They are calling it the anthropocene.

- These are scary times Princess. Nothing will ever be the same.

You are not exaggerating RB.

- I’m not disagreeing.

Please allow me to digress on this tangent, as it is related.

Very well.

Thank you;

- Children’s literature; indeed all literature faces new challenges. What used to be normal has become almost a thing of the past; new generations of children readers find themselves at a new frontier. The post-pandemic, post-modern and post-digital age will test the attention spans of our younger generations, and they are our future champions and leaders.

- Indeed Princess; we are lucky if the wee kits are even still reading books, let alone epic fairie tales.

RB; do you think books are at risk of old-fashioned becoming?

Well; it is a worry is it not? And if that is the case, then we should be worried.

But children will never stop reading RB. Is basic teaching goal at school.

No that’s right Princess; as you say; chillens will always be reading at school; but even school has changed for our chillenly-ones Princess. Because of the pandemic they are now at home with a learning program.

- Cor blinkin blimey! This is a radical thing indeed.

The children’s learning needs are not the same are they RB?

Actually Princess; I must correct you there;

- the needs are the same, but the context is different, so how the needs are met has to change drastically;

- but we should pause here or I will get upset; this is a very emotionally-laden issue for me. Do you have a hanky?

- I believe you have prepared some pandemickal facts and figures for us. Thank you.

I have RB; I agree is wise.

Egg seller; then fire away o-epidemiologickal one.

RB I will present these data as at when we last left our readers; this was June in 2020 at the time of your spectacular mental breakdown in front of Jigajig and Toffeepop.

- My letter to readers in Moonie World III was in September 2020.

Jolly good.

The world population at that time was seven and a half billion people.

Golly.

At that time, in six months of global spread of the contagion, there were sixteen and a half million reported cases, with six-hundred and fifty thousand reported deaths.

You should put those figures in actual numbers Princess; they might have more impact.

Very well; global population of 7,500,000,000 people; 16,500,000 cases of the contagion; 650,000 deaths.

- I must stress that the word ‘reported’ is important RB. There is some concern that many cases and deaths are not being reported.

Because there are so many people I suppose.

Yes; but in order for there to be