Jane Metcalfe
Bio
Night-club hostess, opera singer, writer, my life has certainly been eclectic. I recently published "Things in Heaven and Earth": the true story of a secret affair between Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall and an unknown British playwright.
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Before After
It was dark inside the tank. Anita closed her eyes and opened them again quickly, hoping for a glint of light, but there was nothing. Just the dark. She pressed the heels of her hands into her eye sockets, waiting for the silver foetus to appear. When she digs deep enough she can always find it. Sometimes there are two joined together, like Siamese twins.
By Jane Metcalfe5 years ago in Fiction
Terrain
Zed picked at the earth with his fingers, digging in below the hard crust of the surface to softer soil. He’d been moving for a long time with the crouching stealth of a predator, the flats of his hands weaving back and forth over the barren terrain until the pulse in his palms jumped wildly at the spot where he now dug. He had no idea what he was looking for, though he knew it was of great value. Whichever way you looked at it, he was on a reckless and potentially terminal adventure. Had they not said, reminding them every morning and night through the sound system that ricocheted as fast as a series of bullets round the closely packed cells, that life outside the hive would bring certain death? Yet he hadn’t died. Not yet anyway.
By Jane Metcalfe5 years ago in Futurism
