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This week’s episode of Lager Time was a special one, as it’s the first time I’ve put someone’s else’s work on there. That someone is a very good freind of mine, called Christana Lei, who’ve I known for number of years now and we’ve colloberated before on a few projects.

The story is called Spin. I asked Christana to write an introduction for it; so see below

SPIN

Written by Christana Lei

Voiced by Paul Cree

Intro by Christana Lei

This story is a chapter that never made it into a novel I’m working on.
Inspired by my love for the young people I was lucky enough to spend serious time with, when working in a PRU back in 2010. Inspired too by the lyrics of a song called Sad But True by the legendary Metallica (1991), whose lyrics are used throughout. When I write, I tend to imagine my writing like a film playing out in front of me, and if I had the production budget, Metallica would be the soundtrack to this one.

Maybe you’ll hear themes in the story but that’s not intentional: It was just an exercise in witnessing and acknowledging the violence that happens with no rhyme or reason, no matter how much we want to find reasons for it, in an attempt to impose order on chaos. It seems that the attempts to do this by those of us who are on the edges but not in the violence; an attempt we make to preserve our own sanity and faith in human nature, more often than not just leads to victim-blaming.

I hope Spin pays homage to some of the experiences some of us (hopefully) survive in this messy, sometimes brutal business of being human. And that now Paul has performed it, I can forget about it completely, because it is out of my system. (Which means Paul is now kind of an Exorcist). Enjoy.

Christana Lei