HYPERIA: EPISODE ONE

It was a dark and stormy night in the suburb of the modem world known as Hyperia.

Iris watches the beech-lined street from her grey Nissan Micra.

Down at the shopping parade, Gaia and her brother Gai are just kind of hanging out when a motor-cycle roars up, a black-clad figure astride the Harley-Davidson, passing...

Is Iris watching the house where Genes, goddess of beginnings, sits upstairs, trying to start her novel again? While below, her husband burns papers in a grate, and we glimpse the fragment ZE amidst the flames?

Or...?

The motor-cyclist, now helmet-less, is revealed to be a woman, with a shock of black hair, and a fixed look in her eyes. She tilts her head back, signalling the kids who are hanging out. They approach.

Or is Iris, biting into a tuna mayonnaise sandwich on granary, watching that house where the two women live, the schoolteacher and the companion, the two women whom we see now, one reading a light paperback, the other at her feet, her head against the other's knee, staring into the fake flames of the gas fire?

And what is the flashing thing that passes from the leather-clad woman to the two teenagers, in exchange for money?

And what is it that Genes types at her word-processor, into a file called SOAP.DOC? 'It was a dark and stormy night in the suburb of the modem world known as Hyperia...'

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This is part of the writing project goddesses in cyberspace, developed by Alan McDonald at ArtiMedia, Batley, UK. Thanks to Charin Singh for all his help, and to Yorkshire and Humberside Arts for financial support. Episode written by Alan McDonald, last updated 20 November 1995.