Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 4 - Part 1

There was the sound of another gunshot just before Charmaine and the Butchers reached the main house. They could hear Stanley Wharbuck shouting, “Take another step mister and the next one will not go over your head but through your @##%* heart. Charmaine was taken aback. In all the years she had been on the estate she had never

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 3 - Part 14

Reverend Julian was reclining in my favorite chair on the verandah. Ricky laughed when he saw the reaction on my face when I saw the Reverend in my chair. He knew me too well. I always said to him that if I catch a puss or a dog in my chair that’s their last day on earth! He helped me with my bags to the verandah and as he turned to leave I reminded him to pick me up at the same time the next morning. I mounted the steps to the verandah. The Reverend had his eyes closed and seemed to be taking a nap. I was tiptoeing past him when he said, “Not because my eyes are closed it means that I am sleeping!” He laughed, as if he had said something funny. I was not amused and I looked at him steadily. He sat up in the chair and wiped his face with his handkerchief. I wondered why he was sweating so much. Reverend Julian began to apologize for what he heard had happened. Obviously Maud and Cassie had filled him in. He kept saying how sorry he was and if anything had happened to me he would not be able to forgive himself. I reminded him that I was always

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 3 - Part 13

I made my way through the throng hovering outside the Maternity Ward. It was not unusual to see crowds of women hovering at the Maternity Ward as some family members and friends just cannot wait until the baby went home. In this day and age everybody wanted to be the first one to post the baby's picture on Facebook and Instagram. Inside the ward four ladies surrounded the bed of the young miss who had such a hard time giving birth earlier today. They were trying to console her as she cried in an agonizing manner. She screamed, “He’s dead and he has

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 3 - Part 12

The rest of Charmaine’s fifteenth year went by quietly. She still wrote about Carlton in her diary. She kept wishing he would visit his uncle so that she would see him again just to tell him exactly how she felt. A couple of the pages in the diary had watermarks which I suspected were from the tears that she cried in frustration. After a while she stopped writing about him. I guess she must have accepted the fact that she would never see him again. Anyway, it was coming up to her sixteenth

Border Secured (A Scenario) Section 3 - Part 11

Ricky had not seen me since just before the holidays so I brought him up to date on all that had transpired. He laughed at the way I described the migrants, however, he became very concerned when he heard about the attempted break in and the poisoned meat that was meant for the dogs but killed the cats instead. When I told him about Rajah he could not believe that we were still alive. He said that Rajah was a cold-blooded