Gibber’s Creek Gazette, March 1972
No Hot Pants or Boob Tubes at the Club Please!
Mr Bruce Briggs, President of the Gibber’s Creek RSL Club, reminds readers of the Gazette that patrons must be dressed decently and respectfully, due to complaints by members. Ladies: proper skirts, please.
‘We must uphold family values,’ said Mr Briggs. ‘Any visitor wearing a skirt more than an inch above the knee may be asked to leave.’
RA ZACHARIA
He had been a fool. Ra Zacharia was rarely a fool. But today he had let his eagerness show.
He would not make that mistake again.
He had hunted for perfect Sacrifices for two years, until he had heard of River View at Gibber’s Creek. What better place to find the Sacrifices the Elders demanded than a rehabilitation centre for crippled children in a country town?
It wasn’t until his community buildings were almost complete that he discovered that River View was designed for children who needed only a year or two of therapy, and then went home to almost normal lives. Ra Zacharia had no need of ‘almost normal’. He already had enough of those.
He should have trusted in the harmony of the universe! For there she was, perfect, on his first visit to town. That small defiant girl, her shrunken legs dangling over the chair in a way that made it clear she had never walked. Never could walk, without a miracle.
Ra Zacharia smiled as he turned the car onto the road that led to his community. Once he controlled that girl, he would create a miracle indeed.
But he must move slowly. Must, somehow, convince her to be his, absolutely. The perfect willing Sacrifice to offer to the Elders.
Forever.