Escape Into Dreaming

By Ann Chatham

In the ancient Aboriginal Dreaming stories all living things had a human spirit and could communicate with each other, interact with their Mother Earth and  Father sky, their creator.  There were rules set by the father and creator so that the children of Mother

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sweetspire Literature Management LLC
• Release date: May 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9781960861092

Ann Chatham

I live on the south coast of New South Wales Australia, where I live with my husband and one grown up daughter (the other five have left the nest). It is in this place where I have finally given my spirit permission to speak after being silent and afraid for far too long. I was born and lived my formative years in the tiny country town of Peak Hill. My home was a tumbling-down shack in the poor farming community, where my mother, from the age of sixteen, raised six children. My father, older brothers, and uncles were shearers, drovers, and stockmen. A severe drought drove many families off their farms and into the cities to find work. My parents, with my sister and I, came to Wollongong, where my father found work in the coal mines.

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Copyright © 2023 Ann Chatham

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This is a work of fiction.

Contents

Foreword

Characters

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Foreword

In the ancient Aboriginal Dreaming stories all living things had a human spirit and could communicate with each other, interact with their Mother Earth and Father sky, their creator. There were rules set by the father and creator so that the children of Mother earth would live in peace. However. When rules are not adhered to conflict inevitably happens.

This particular encounter is based on a real Dreaming story told by the old people in far western New South Wales. It shines a light on the reason why this particular group of Aboriginal people will not go out in the dark on their own.

Woven into this story is a question of what happens when the old and the new Australian cultures meet.

Escape Into Dreaming is an attempt to tell the story to children in the hope that they will better understand the spirituality of our first nation’s people.

Characters