The People in the Pool
By G R Jordan
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He lost her, murdered a long time ago. But now she’s returned. If something isn’t real, does it matter?
“The People in the Pool” is the 3rd origin story in the A&K origins series, a collection of short stories that expand G R Jordan’s A&K universe. If you love rollicking action, imperfect heroes and weird villains and places, then you will love the Austerley & Kirkgordon series.
Not every mother can warm a child’s heart.
G R Jordan
GR Jordan is a self-published author who finally decided at forty that in order to have an enjoyable lifestyle, his creative beast within would have to be unleashed. His books mirror that conflict in life where acts of decency contend with self-promotion, goodness stares in horror at evil and kindness blind-sides us when we are at our worst. Corrupting our world with his parade of wondrous and horrific characters, he highlights everyday tensions with fresh eyes whilst taking his methodical, intelligent mainstays on a roller-coaster ride of dilemmas, all the while suffering the banter of their provocative sidekicks.A graduate of Loughborough University where he masqueraded as a chemical engineer but ultimately played American football, GR Jordan worked at changing the shape of cereal flakes and pulled a pallet truck for a living. Watching vegetables freeze at -40C was another career highlight and he was also one of the Scottish Highlands blind air traffic controllers. Having flirted with most places in the UK, he is now based in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his free time is spent between raising a young family with his wife, writing, figuring out how to work a loom and caring for a small flock of chickens. Luckily his writing is influenced by his varied work and life experience as the chickens have not been the poetical inspiration he had hoped for!
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The People in the Pool - G R Jordan
G R Jordan
The People in the Pool
Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins #3
First published by Carpetless Publishing in 2018
Copyright © G R Jordan, 2018
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First edition
ISBN: Epub: 978-1-912153-18-3 Mobi: 978-1-912153-17-6
Editing by Roma Gray
Cover art by J Caleb Clarke
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Publisher LogoDedicated to my mother, they have such influence on us.
Thankfully my mother’s was such a good one!
Contents
The Woman Who Felt No Cold
The Memory of His Mother
Body of Ice
An Agent's Mother
Into the Pool
The Wrong Person's Home
Breaking Out
Those Left Behind
The Shadow of a Shoggoth
A Small Request
About the Author
Also by G R Jordan
The Woman Who Felt No Cold
Flicking the freshly falling snow off his moustache, he made his way over to the woman who was standing next to the outpost’s entrance. The outside temperature was ridiculously cold—below zero—and yet she stood there in just a leather jacket, jeans, boots, and a thin t-shirt. The wind was beginning to lift and drive the snow into their faces, but you would hardly have known it from looking at her except for her black hair flailing in the wind.
Major Arthur Lewis Siddlington-Havers had thought this trip to Antarctica would be somewhat dull, examining a few leads about a forlorn expedition into the heart of the continent. Now he saw someone unusual which, in his line of work, meant trouble. He crossed the short distance to the woman, thankful for his thick jacket, padded leggings and boots, and tapped her gently on the shoulder from behind.
Yes?
asked the woman, turning around.
She was every bit as impressive from the front and almost the same height as Havers. Her jacket was open and Havers wondered how she wasn’t chilled to the bone. A white complexion was countered by a warm smile of a person who believed they had the upper hand in everything.
Strange, thought Havers, that’s