The ANZ Apotheosis

Chapter 1 - Birthday Lunch - 31/7/18 Chapter 2

  There was a low buzz of conversation in the RSL accompanied by the discordant tintinnabulation of poker machines. He shuffled slowly up to the community notice board by the bar, giving the rack of bottles behind the bar a long, lascivious look as he did so. Each time he lifted a foot from the ancient obligatory muted toned carpet, his shoes made a sound like someone parting Velcro. In one corner, a gaggle of desperate looking punters were watching the inevitable sports broadcast.   From the looks of it, Imp Fighting being broadcast out of the new pit they just finished building in Wollonwrong . Most seemed to be cheering for an emaciated yet wiry looking bucca with a trident the size of a slightly overly large salad fork - "Cousin Jack". A few desperadoes were barracking for a homonculus that looked like it had been slapped together from a few nails and the contents of a medical waste bin - "Toothy Hairy". Unsurprisingly, a vaguely humanoid mass of flesh covered i

CHAPTER 1 – Birthday Lunch - 31/7/18 “Chur!” said the man lying face down on Sarahmon’s massage table. “Chur. Whu.” Sarahmon ignored the nonsense words spilling forth from her customer. He was one of her regulars, a simpleton who could only speak those two words, which meant he had one up on Hodor. He was a huge guy, all muscle. His back was covered with an intricate tattoo depicting two twin dragons, both yellow to light green in colour, circling each other. The number 754 was tattooed below the dragons. As she worked his back, the dragons appeared to fly. It almost felt like they were moving, alive. Trick of the light, she told herself. “Whu…” he said contentedly as she finished the massage. She had no idea what this man’s name was, but she always referred to him as Dragons. Perhaps Dragons754 if she ever needed to differentiate him from any other nameless simpleton with Dragon tattoos. Dragons sat up and put on his shirt. “Same time next week?” Sarahmon asked. “Whu,” he said with a