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One lonely abused schoolgirl 'occupies' herself.. and sets off an explosive social and economic Revolution..

January 2013. Happy to let you know The Free is IN PRINT as a real ‘dead tree’ book
Available here: https://www.createspace.com/3702134 costs 10€, or $14.
Also it's a Free Download as an illustrated ebook for phones, readers etc, . Available CLICK WEBSITE BELOW

I'm promoting The Free on the 'Wordmess' blog, posting stuff on the themes of the book: feminism, anarchism, social revolution, it's fun and I enjoy 'gimping images'...by now it has 2884 'Fiends on Farcebook' and 140,000 views of the blog.

some comments.

'This book is a gas, terrific writing,a wonderful and likely prophetic story for the near future' .. Jim Mac.

'It creates poetry out the strange internal rhythms and logic of the main character, full of off-beat rhythms and lyrical leitmotifs'...Rob Stewart

“The Free. An unbelievably exciting book, not because of its stupendous pace and action filled plot, but because of the depth of character holding us breathless as we explore one after another of these amazing people.’’ Gerry McCullough-

'Yahoo! It is in acts, has skin and is feminist, what more can one want .Truly supported'. A Zoomer

'This book is truly unique. The characters and plot flow like water, and are tasty like chocolate'. A.A.

'It's sexy and wonderful and just pure joy... a breathless celebration of life... Gold in its purest literary form'. Bec

About the writer

Who cares who I am?
Just so the book can be neatly labelled and filed away?.
“I knew it! ...an evil anarchist!
Who I am is not important here, except to show, perhaps,
that I am serious, about these scribbles.
So here goes...

After a boring education (I did Eng. Lit. and a thesis on De-Schooling) I began a rather brilliant career as a layabout. Passing my idle hours on Adventure Playgrounds, Street Theater, Anti Nukes and Subversive Nonsense,.
For several years I shared a magnificent squat in central Amsterdam, before definitively dossing down in Brixton, with a creditable six and a half years on the dole.
While whiling away my life doing Squatters Aid, Pirate Radio and Partying I enjoyed superb park-view accommodation, and jotted down the first version of this book for the class-less Hooligan Press.
Retiring extremely early to Barcelona beach, I was horrified to have to work and even pay rent. But then the occupations took off, and I ended up living in a 'Social Center' (on top of a mountain.).
Here I play around with gardens and old cars, and, um,
look after children and horses... I can cook a deadly vegetarian paella and my hobbies include solar-powered internet and, er, rooting in bins.
We have a wizard windmill and dispose of excellent compost toilets.
I do have one big son, who's 13 years old and speaks 4 languages (not all at once).

Thanks again everyone for your help and support with this project.

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The Free

M.Gilliland

One lonely abused schoolgirl 'OCCUPIES' herself.. and sets off an explosive social and economic Revolution..


.The State is going bottoms up, the Climate is going crazy,
......we’re living the collapse of capitalism, blow by blow,
...............................with a rainbow.
..............Linda changes her name to Maxie
.....She and her new friends get free of their traumas,
..and get into dealing death blows, to a skinhead gang,
....a bankrupt school and the testerical special police.
.........Next thing they flee to Ragwort CoOp Pool,
........ in a big safe occupied working class area.
.......We play the adventure live through their eyes,
..laughing and lamenting... inventing social revolution.

..The PIF soldiers eventually arrive, to restore capitalist chaos,
............Macker and Maxie are missing, the hunt begins,
....while the spaced out invaders get subverted, corrupted,
..............................swallowed and digested.
Our odd family puzzles with the pieces.. finding a fun lifestyle,
......a coppice farm, and bright ideas for saving The Planet,
but keep your hankies handy, folks.. click on your giant wings,
........................... for the fantastic FLYING finale!

I try to return all Shelvings.. unless your book is fascist, sexist or racist..

 

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Mike, thanks for your helpful comments. I will consder removing the h....

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I wrote 1 day ago

So far I've found this fascinating and horrifying, the attention to detail makes it all too real and Titus a brilliant anti-hero who just gets more and more hateful. The great thing for me is how this shows in an entertaining way just how racial or religious bigotry is whipped into a mass frenzy fo... view book

I wrote 56 days ago

Hi Nicolas, I had a read through your story.. great writing. My suggestions? maybe chapter one should come later so as to have more suspense?. Maybe you need more context for the war on women, like that they're now surplus to the labour force, religious revival etc. Also at the risk of repetitio... view book

I wrote 56 days ago

Hi there Andrew. I enjoyed looking through your excellent book.. On my shelf. I see you have lots of positive comments already. ...a couple of observations then : What a pity authonomy doesn't stretch to allowing illustrations of these amazing birds! As you start with a flashback why not end wit... view book

I wrote 222 days ago

Hi James, yes I'm enjoying Hollow and have 5 starred and backed while I read it. Lotsaluck!!.........mike..(The Free) view book

I wrote 279 days ago

Hello Adina, I've been reading more of Lucia's real life story.. very impressive and realistic, this explains why so many abused and beaten-up women are forced to go back to their abusers. I didn't read it all but found myself absorbed in Ch 14 with the suspense of whether she'd go back with him or ... view book

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