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Loving The Low Clouds
…He went into the men's washroom. "Give us back our land, white man," was inked in over the urinal. "You need our pop and chips," was a reply in different writing. "We'll make our own" "Like moose pee too." ….
…"Down south their city is sweating with sin and corruption, defeat, and defiance of the values of Allah, our one true god, blessed be his name. From there too they sent soldiers to attack our brothers in Afghanistan, snipers who killed many without themselves losing a single man. What if you would tell the plan, too?" ....
...He knew Raven, like a Queen of the Damned, had been chosen to represent the five hundred missing or murdered Canadian Aboriginal women from the last twenty years...
Tyson, a half-broken Aboriginal sniper, has lost a loved sister in the current epidemic of wilderness murdered women. Hopeless for answers he plans a private vengeance. However, he had not expected to be arrested by Covix, an unorthodox cop from the urban deserts. Tyson's girlfriend Raven did not plan to have her children taken by the clumsy but implacable operatives of the Child Protection agencies.
Simultaneously, in the stormy forested background a hidden brigade of terrorists, planned a cleanly executed explosion of a dirty nuclear weapon. From Winnipeg, a prairie city of confused and occult surprise, come varied validations and the destruction of some ancient griefs.
Jim Hitching came to Manitoba from Britain nearly fifty years ago, and watched nine-eleven from a secluded weather station in the north, where he worked as a weather tech. He also worked as a teacher, where an inspector suspected him of writing the students' poetry for them; and on a northern underground diamond drill. Previously published as a poet by Turnstone Press, he wrote Loving the Low Clouds while employed as a guard in a psychiatric ward, where humane treatment and strange tales intermingled.
…"Down south their city is sweating with sin and corruption, defeat, and defiance of the values of Allah, our one true god, blessed be his name. From there too they sent soldiers to attack our brothers in Afghanistan, snipers who killed many without themselves losing a single man. What if you would tell the plan, too?" ....
...He knew Raven, like a Queen of the Damned, had been chosen to represent the five hundred missing or murdered Canadian Aboriginal women from the last twenty years...
Tyson, a half-broken Aboriginal sniper, has lost a loved sister in the current epidemic of wilderness murdered women. Hopeless for answers he plans a private vengeance. However, he had not expected to be arrested by Covix, an unorthodox cop from the urban deserts. Tyson's girlfriend Raven did not plan to have her children taken by the clumsy but implacable operatives of the Child Protection agencies.
Simultaneously, in the stormy forested background a hidden brigade of terrorists, planned a cleanly executed explosion of a dirty nuclear weapon. From Winnipeg, a prairie city of confused and occult surprise, come varied validations and the destruction of some ancient griefs.
Jim Hitching came to Manitoba from Britain nearly fifty years ago, and watched nine-eleven from a secluded weather station in the north, where he worked as a weather tech. He also worked as a teacher, where an inspector suspected him of writing the students' poetry for them; and on a northern underground diamond drill. Previously published as a poet by Turnstone Press, he wrote Loving the Low Clouds while employed as a guard in a psychiatric ward, where humane treatment and strange tales intermingled.
327 pages, ebook
First published December 6, 2014
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