Homeless Souls, the latest novel by New Zealand author Jack Freestone is now available on Amazon’s Kindle Store.
Excerpt:
I did end up selling some kitchen units that trip. And my boss did move me to the Kilburn office a few months later. It meant a large pay rise.
Things were great for a while. And then Covid hit.
I always had a good instinct for danger, and I also had a good ability to read people. Something just did not feel right about it. About any of it. Of course I masked up like everyone else at work, and I did test regularly. But I stopped short at the vaccine. I decided not to get it.
Decades before I recalled having a conversation with my mother about the flu vaccine. She told me that whenever one of her elderly friends had the flu vaccine, within a few months they usually got sick and died.
My mother was a very wise woman, and she was right about most things, so her words resonated in my head when it came to the Covid vaccine.
But I was pressured by my new boss, and colleagues.
“Take one for the team!” was their favourite expression.
But others included, “You won’t be able to travel!”
And, “How can you sell units when you are a danger to others!?”
I am a stubborn person, and the more they tried to pressure me the more resolute I was to not get it.
Who were they to tell me what to put inside my body, my temple?
But, at the end of it all I was fired.
Available on Amazon.
