
Excerpt from Chapter 2 of the novel: To Be Heard
This went on through the industrial revolution. Then during the Great War it turned into a canon factory. When the Great Depression came, the building was empty all the way until World War 2 and then it stored tank tracks. After the war it became a storage building for the Domino Sugar plant. The plant lasted for fifty or so years and that space became abandoned until some local musicians took it over. We were all there for the same reasons. It took all that history to get us there at that moment when the first sunrise of 2006 came over the horizon. We were the bravest of our former teachers, ready to go anywhere but home. The sun as our witness, we would be valid. The sunrise as our awakening, we would be seen.
Published on July 15, 2013 15:57