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Stuart Ayris - The Truth About Trees
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May 29, 2016 08:36AM

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Hope it's a huge success!





"“First thing you need to learn about baking bread is nothing to do with baking bread. What you need to know, to be sure of, is death. You got that? Death. Unless you know about death then you won’t ever make anything rise, truly rise I mean. Back to your Bible miracle again maybe but that’s the point. It’s all miracles when it comes down to it. You got your Vietnam right now, yeah? Not cool. Death is all over it. We got people dying in this country too. Hard working people just trying to get through life - to sustain like I said - but they wind up dying, some through no fault of their own, others because they don’t know about death, don’t know it at all, just see it as something as happens on the news or in the films. You know anything about death, Missy?”
1967?
West London?
Seventeen years old?
Ready for the groove?
Oh yeah, man.
Oh yeah.
That long gone
bakery girl.
“Salt kills yeast. You know that? You didn’t before? You do now. Never let the salt get near the yeast. Your yeast is your heart, it pumps the blood around, gets everything moving, livens up the dead and creates the miracle - not on its own but we’ll come to that. The salt, you need that for the crust - it’s not magical like yeast but it has a place in the whole scheme of it all. No yeast, no rise. No salt, no crust. Bread without crust is a body without skin. Underneath the skin is where all the magic happens but you need that skin and that crust to hold off the revealing. That crust is the silk cloth the magician holds in one hand whilst he’s dazzling you with the other. But never forget. The salt will kill the yeast soon as look at it. And it does look at it. I’ve seen it. When it’s not looking at me but looking at the yeast. Salt’s not easy to catch out but you can do it. It don’t like being caught but darling you have to keep everything fine in this whole breadmaking thing. Don’t malign the salt because of, you know, the crust. But you look after that yeast and keep ‘em separate then you got no death anywhere near? We don’t want no Vietnam round here. There ain’t no getting out of no Vietnam. You got it?”
“I think so.”
“Good. Then pull those drapes across, sugar, and let me teach you all about the motherfucking rising…”"


Thank you Jim. It's certainly going well so far. Just need to get it right and let it fly where it might!

But they'll love it so much they'll badger their friends until they love it as well :-)

But they..."
I agree mate. Safe and sensible has never really been more forte either in life or in literature!


This Awful Small Mercy of Miss Miriam Mallone - aiming for an early 2021 release.
The Truth About Trees - 20,000 words in and grooving!




This Awful Small Mercy Of Miss Miriam Malone - with editor and hopefully out within the next few months.
The Truth About Trees - almost a quarter of the way through the second draft.
Darling Chubby Chops - first five thousand words done and getting into the groove.

Plenty of caveats so who the hell really knows?!

I'd have thought that we'd see Cricket this summer. I certainly hope so


Who needs mainstream fiction anyway? ;-)