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The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 8
His heart was galloping in his chest and making echoes throughout his body. His mouth was open and drawing in large gulps to keep up with the beat and his limbs trembled like a pile of jello as he tried and failed to sit up.All five senses were on high alert in the dark room. The moisture that has broken out on his skin had now started to dry up in the cold night wind. He shivered and pulled the blanket up to his chin.The boy had never been more scared in his life. In all of his eleven years, he had had dreams. Strange dreams, sweet dreams, confusing dreams, sad dreams and chilly dreams. But never in his life had he experienced a dream so vivid it had felt like real life, so intense it had taken control of his body or so frightening he had almost had a heart attack.He had never had a near-death experience dream before and the fact that he still remembered every detail of it up to the cavernous, open jaws of nothingness chilled him through skin and bone to his blood vessels.They sa
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 9
Finian Relish was only aware he was still screaming minutes later when his father came thundering down the stairs, in nothing but a hastily shoved-on pyjama bottom and a thick iron driver.'What is it? What happened?' The man came to a stop in front of him, bloodshot eyes wide and darting with fear. He tested his weight from foot to foot, gripping and twisting the club in his hands as though examining the apposability of his thumbs on it.The boy stopped screaming to look up at his towering father. The gulps of air he inhaled into his tired throat were dry and made his lungs burn. And the fear that still gripped him crippled his muscles and shook them like a leafling in a morning wind. 'Finian?' Mr Relish frowned hard and squatted to the boy's level. His panting, hot breath fanned the child's face with a sour air. "Look at me, what is it?"His brain finally caught up with himself and he remembered the apparition he had seen. His galloping heart picked up pace once again and he yelped
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The Third Side of the Coin This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2021 by InamorataFeels All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Cover design by InamorataFeels Blurb: Not all coins have just two faces . . . Finian Relish is the casual kind of child who thinks having two sisters and a brother is the bane of his existence. His life changes when he finds a mysterious silver coin on a lone walk home. And when it presumably saves him from the clutches of his usual bullies in school, he starts to suspect the coin is not as ord
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 1
The day Finian Relish found the coin, he had been stomping down Old Mucury Road, having just had a spat with his sister Odessa.The sun was high in the sky and scorching on that particular Sunday afternoon, but our main character was a bit what'd you say overdressed. His dark green overalls and chinos trouser stood out and made one wonder if he wasn't boiling up inside. The reason he had dressed for the wrong weather is still something that eludes me.Now, you see, Mr Relish, his father, had sent him to Big Mac's instead of Odessa, who already had that fixed role every Sunday afternoon. But lately, Odessa had been preoccupied with a stupid thing with her teenage friends and had faked menstrual pain so their father had to send him.So, where was I? Oh, yes. He was stomping down the road in his heavy jean combat boots. Perhaps if he hadn't been wearing the frown so intently, or if he hadn't been in a foul mood to start with, he would have been running down t
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 2
Later in the evening that day, when the sun had long since submerged behind the horizon, Finian pranced the front porch, rolling the coin between his fingers.He had discarded his heavy outfit and was in a simple sleeveless jersey and the chinos pants. Even the heavy shoes had been swapped for house flip-flops. The front door opened and Pippa stepped out, closely followed by Odessa, who smirked on seeing him. Pippa's attention was entirely on the small phone in her clutches, pressing at the backlit buttons rapidly like a typist.Finish smirked back at his elder sister and rolled his eyes at the younger. He wondered what was with her and the phone anyway. Mother had had to threaten to take it away forever before she stopped going at it at the dining table.For real and for true, he should have gotten the phone instead of Pippa. All his friends in school used the latest phones. But Finian hadn't wanted a hand-me-down from his parents. Especially si
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 3 {I}
The first incident that affirmed our main character's opinion about the coin's lucky abilities happened the next day at school.The first half of school had gone okay. He hadn't worn the coin as a pendant, after all. But by the time it was break time, about half of the boys in class J6 were convinced Finian Relish was a descendant of the bravest and most feared military general in the second world war.So, the child was in high spirits as he walked down the school corridor to his locker at break time. He could be seen with a pep in his step and a low whistle in his throat. Then the bullies came. The euphoria suffused from his face faster than a vacuum could have done. It was not that the bullies had been a surprise. No, they came regularly, at most three times a week (Once in a while he was lucky to see neither hide nor hair of them for a whole week). But, alas, he had been so self-absorbed in his recent rise to recognition that the thought of his normal bullies had been erased, fo
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 3 {II}
Warning: Triggering content in the chapter, including but not limited to bullying, strangling and pain.His hand clutched tight at his breast where the coin lay. A look of panic travelled over his face. I reckon it must have passed through his system too.I imagine you must know how it feels to not want to give up your very precious valuable, especially one that you just recently acquired and had started growing attached to. If you didn't have your share of bullies like most of us did at one point in time at school, then, surely, an elder sibling must have bullied you out of something that was rightfully yours.So, I think it's safe to assume that you understand how Finian felt. And if my assumption is correct, then you'd also know that he'd be reluctant to give it up, at the expense of his life at the bullies' hands. In the face of danger.And, unfortunately, his reluctance only served as fuel to Hansel's fire. He picked up our main character by the shirt collar. All of a sudden, th
The Third Side of the Coin Chapter 4
When the boy stepped into the school tuck shop, the large room was abuzz and humming like the bingo room after an evening alfresco on July the fourth. Primary school students stood in groups and clusters, discussing what had happened in the primary six hallway.No doubt, the boys and girls who had stood behind to watch the bully fest were feeling good about themselves now. They obviously soaked in the attention of their transfixed peers as each told his own inflated version of what had happened.As he turned away from the crowd to walk towards the show glass of sweetmeats, one of the narrators must have pointed at him, because soon he heard a collective gasp level out the room. And when he turned back, about a hundred wide eyes stared at him in awe.Finian claims to have felt horror at first. Some weird conspiracy theorem had hopped into his still befuddled mind. He had wondered if, maybe the children were going to be enraged at him for being the cause of the downfall of The Bigs's le
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