l. lee lowe » Mortal Ghost
By L. Lee Lowe
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Podcast Description
It's a fiery hot summer, and sixteen-year-old Jesse Wright is on the run. An oddly gifted boy, he arrives in a new city where the direction of his life is about to change. He's hungry and lonely and desperate - and beset by visions of a stranger who is being brutally tortured. And then there are Jesse's own memories of a fire ...
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ExplicitChapter Forty-Two | Sarah is heading for the corn circle. It’s a warm golden afternoon, the first after a grey start to October, and the sidewalk cafés and playgrounds are beginning to fill. She comes often to the park. On most days she wheels the pushchair along the g | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Forty-One | In the drive Jesse revved the motorbike, its trademark *pop pop . . . pop pop* ripping through the predawn silence. A light went on next door, and as the police came rushing out to their patrol car, Meg and Finn on their heels, | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Forty | ‘Is that you, Jesse?’ - Jesse whirled at Meg’s voice. He had drawn the curtains as soon as he’d come into his room and draped a blanket over the window for extra safety before switching on a light. His shower had been brief but blistering. | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Nine | A few hours afterwards Jesse was seriously annoyed with himself for letting Sarah drag him to this party. ‘It’s not really a club,’ she’d said, ‘just an end-of-the-holidays sort of thing, all my mates will be there, Katy, everyone, | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Eight | Finn cancelled his long-scheduled trip to New York over Jesse’s protests. ‘So I won’t sell as many books. Who cares? We won’t be going hungry, not with a doctor in the family.’ - Finn’s joking did nothing to mask the worry at the back of hi | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Seven | Jesse woke all at once, as though someone had tossed a bucket of cold water over the bed. For a moment he was unable to move, his first conscious thought of Sarah. He shifted his gaze from the elongated rhomboid of moonlight which fell across the flo... | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Six | At Siggy’s Jesse stopped just inside the doorway. The music surrounded him like a conversation of gossipy magpies, village women at the borehole drawing water for the day’s washing. Notes spilled from the tenor sax in a voluble chatter—an old woma | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Five | Why did you stop with Gavin’s hands? Think of what else the bastard deserves. - Jesse told his inner voice to shut up. Destroying Red hadn’t been quite the success he’d hoped. There was a kind of internal bleeding, | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Four | Jesse set the top spinning before him in the air, sent it out to a place of hypercomplex snow, and willed its instantaneous return. As the thin coating of ice melted against his skin, he would have been hard-pressed to describe the sensation in his fi... | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Three | Sunday before dawn. It must have rained earlier—the air was damp and chill, with the raw green-tea smell of more to come. Sarah checked her alarm: five o’clock. No point tossing and turning any longer. She donned a fleecy jumper and tried reading; | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-Two | The skatepark was crowded. Everybody was out, determined to snaffle a share of the few leftover evenings before the new term began. Jesse had brought Nubi, but the dog soon chased first one, then a second skater into a nosedive. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty-One | Sarah and Jesse took a bus as far as the river, then walked in the direction of the docklands. It had turned hot again, one of those late summer days when it seemed that school, and winter, could be postponed indefinitely. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirty | And wakes to a world in flames. - Jesse hisses and narrows his eyes to slits, and the fire shrinks to a blowtorch sun, just rising over the horizon. His head is pounding, his spit tastes coppery. Shutting his eyes again, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Nine | About two in the morning Jesse abandoned the attempt to sleep. The voice in his head was quiescent, undoubtedly aware of the human need for nightly oblivion. There was no reason to think that Red would invade his dreams, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Eight | Jesse tripped over the skateboard on the way to the kitchen. Finn and Nubi heard the crash and the swearing, and came running. They, dog and man, scrimmaged in the doorway. Nubi tried to run between Finn’s legs and Finn landed on his backside, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Seven | ‘Jesse.’ The whisper barely reached the threshold of his hearing. - Startled, Jesse came to an abrupt halt just beyond the fountain. - ‘I didn’t mean to alarm you,’ Meg said. - ‘What are you doing here?’ - | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Six | Jesse had gone to his room for a shower while Sarah slept. Her nightmares were beginning to ease off; sometimes he spent a few hours on his own with a book, sometimes went for a long walk with Nubi. The night city read like a story yet to be written. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Five | On the way home from their picnic Jesse let himself be talked into a film evening, though he’d far prefer to read; he was beginning to need some time alone. Sarah agreed to make a huge bowl of buttered popcorn—*not* the microwave sort—in exchange f | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Four | Sarah flew through a corner of Jesse’s vision, arms outstretched and midriff gaping. As bright as the kite overhead, her hair streamed gaily behind her. Sunlight brought out its reds and golds and coppers, which seemed to gleam just for him. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Three | ‘I’ve brought you something,’ Jesse said. - Reaching into his pocket, he withdrew a miniature snowdome no bigger than an egg. Unlike the usual plastic souvenirs, the dome was surprisingly heavy. He shook it, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-Two | A day later Jesse came into the sitting room to find Finn hanging up a set of photographs mounted behind glass. - ‘They’re of Peter,’ Finn explained. ‘I thought it’s time to display some again.’ - ‘Sarah said you’d destroyed all the photo | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty-One | ‘I need some exercise,’ Finn said, laying down his trumpet. ‘A walk, Jesse?’ - ‘We could go for a run along the river, if you want to work up a sweat,’ Jesse said. - ‘After eating?’ asked Finn in horror. - Sarah moved a piece. ‘Check, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twenty | For two days Jesse watched Sarah conceal her bruises from the family, but when she gasped as he brushed against her side accidentally, he lost his temper. - ‘If you won’t let Meg have a look at you, then go to a clinic!’ he snapped. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Nineteen | The floor of Mick’s bedroom. Mick and Gavin smoking in the next room. The music still audible but no longer booming. Mick had told her she was welcome to bath. He’d opened the large wardrobe with a smile, ‘Borrow what you like. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Eighteen | and a small winged dragon curls herself into a ball as a foot comes down and kicks her and her cries slice through his head into a jumble of limbs and grunts while wake up he tells himself it’s a nightmare of pounding music and slick bodies dancing wri. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Seventeen | Sarah’s mate Thomas dug into the bowl of popcorn. - ‘What a boring movie,’ he said. - Sarah switched off the TV. ‘We could try a round of charades.’ - Thomas snorted and pelted her with a piece of popcorn. She threw him a kiss in return. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Sixteen | Pleased by Nubi’s quick recuperation, the vet removed the splint. - ‘What a clever lad. He’s broken all the rules,’ she said, scratching Nubi behind his ears and feeding him a handful of treats. ‘If it weren’t patently impossible, | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Fifteen | ‘Ready for your first lesson?’ Finn asked. - ‘Lesson?’ Jesse looked puzzled for a moment, then grinned. ‘It’s not too wet, is it?’ - ‘Just a shower. A bit trickier, but you’ll be fine. The thing is, over the next few weeks I’m goin | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Fourteen | Jesse raised his head, but it took him a few moments to bring the room into focus, the place and time. He was kneeling at Nubi’s side. From the doorway Meg was watching them, her face pale and shadowed in the light spilling from the hallway. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Thirteen | One token knock, then Sarah marched into Jesse’s room carrying a mug of tea, a book, and an air of mischief. - ‘Wake up, lazybones.’ She settled on the edge of the bed and held out the mug. ‘Come on, drink up.’ - | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Twelve | The sun was hot on Jesse’s shoulders as he walked along the river. It had the same decisive quality as Finn’s arm—it knew its worth, it knew what it had to offer. Jesse quickened his step. He was already hungry, but the lightness was a gift. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Eleven | Sarah chased her father out of the kitchen with an egg whisk. - ‘Jesse and I will tidy up. I know you’re dying to get to work.’ - Finn eyed the small pool forming at Sarah’s feet, then chewed his bottom lip without looking directly at Jesse. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Ten | Sarah appeared in the kitchen just in time to peer over Finn’s shoulder at the frying pans. - ‘Where did you find all that bacon?’ she asked. ‘You can’t have been to the shops already.’ - ‘Under a bag of chips that’s split its guts. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Nine | Jesse woke to a pale skin forming across the sky. He liked to sleep with open window and open curtains and open nightscape, not that he believed his dream soul wandered to other realms—he’d leave that to the sociologists and shamanic freaks. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Eight | The darkroom occupied most of the cellar—though in this case the word *darkroom* was doubly a misnomer, for it comprised some six interconnecting rooms, brightly lit and each with its own function. In the printing room Finn demonstrated the red safety. | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Seven | ‘May I come in?’ - Jesse nodded. The knock hadn’t come as a complete surprise, though he’d hoped to leave unobtrusively. He’d already changed back into his own things and packed his rucksack. Sarah’s mother must have ironed his freshly wash | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Six | ‘You’re not eating,’ said Sarah’s mother. - The three of them were sitting in the kitchen at a battered wooden table, probably a family heirloom. A jug with sweet peas scented the room. - ‘Jesse?’ Sarah’s mother prompted. - ‘I’m not ver | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Five | Tondi’s body glistened with sweat, her meagre clothes clinging to her skin. When she offered to lend Jesse her skateboard, he mumbled his thanks and kept his head low as she came close, too close. Let her think that he was embarrassed or overcome or . | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Four | ‘Here. You’ve been dying for a cigarette, haven’t you?’ Sarah asked, laying a packet and some matches in front of Jesse. - ‘Thanks but no thanks,’ he said. ‘Don’t buy me stuff.’ - ‘Let’s get one thing straight,’ Sarah said, takin | 5/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Three | Sarah had bought the dog a sturdy leather collar and lead. ‘He’s going to need a tag and chip, his shots. And what about his name?’ - ‘I told you,’ Jesse said. ‘It’s not my dog.’ - ‘He is now,’ she said. ‘What do you want to call | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter Two | At first they walked back towards the Old Bridge in silence, which was exactly how Jesse wanted it. But the girl had the kind of energy that, like the river itself, would not easily be diverted. - ‘My name’s Sarah.’ - ‘Jesse, | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitChapter One | Every night Jesse lies down to sleep with fire. This time, screams and a dark chord burning. *This time*, the beam falls before his hair ignites. - Jesse woke with a start, his heart thudding. It took him a moment to remember where he was. | 5/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Meh. Where are the rest?
I thought that this podcast was pretty good, but I am disappointed that there haven't been any more chapters. Just when I was getting interested in finding out what has happened to the poor, pitiful Jesse, you stopped adding chapters! I really think that you ought to stick with the podcast....
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