Once Upon A Time In Africa E-Book

Christine Munroe

• Herausgeber: neobooks
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Deutsch

Seitenzahl: 34

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Grandma Rose and grandpa Jeff are out for a stroll when the church bell chimes and shrinks grandma with every strike. She disappears and reappears in an African national park as a lioness, where, with a computer, the animals have summoned her for their annual play staged for the visitors of the park in which she is the protagonist. She lives in a camp and rehearses her part. She meets other animals as well as the park rangers who all live to entertain the tourists. Will she see grandpa Jeff again at the end of the season or remain a lioness for the rest of her life?

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Christine Munroe

Once Upon A Time In Africa

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PREFACE

Once upon a time in Africa

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PREFACE

I woke up one day and decided to make a woman disappear and reappear as an animal in a play.

Perhaps it was because my children used to watch a great number of animal documentaries on African wildlife when they were little.

I've never been to central or south Africa so I can't speak from personal experience.

It was important to me to mix the real and reasonable world with the surreal and push the boundaries of your imagination.

Dive in and enjoy the read!

Once upon a time in Africa

“Well, sit down then and I'll tell you a story,” grandma Rose told her four grandchildren, Lisa, Tommy, Brad and April.Grandma Rose was sitting in a rocking chair on the back porch. It was one of those humid summer evenings where the air was heavy and still and clouds of gnats were dancing in front of their faces.

Home-made ice tea stood in a pitcher on the rickety wooden table. Grandpa Jeff pushed the creaking back door open with his shoulder and placed a tray with six glasses on the table. He poured each of them some ice tea and sat down on the porch steps. The four young children crowded eagerly around their grandmother's feet and looked at her expectantly.

“It was on a fine evening in spring about fifty years ago. Grandpa Jeff and I had just met a few weeks previously. My mom didn't like him so we could only see each other in secret.”

“How about your dad, did he like grandpa Jeff?” Tommy asked.

Grandma Rose smiled, “Oh, he liked him very much. He knew we were seeing each other and he'd promised me to convince mom to let us marry. Anyway, back to my story.

“We were already living here, in the same small town, just that there were fewer houses back then. Your grandfather and I were going for a walk out in the fields – in those times the fields began right behind our house – and we heard the church bell chime in the distance.

“At the first chime I felt rather funny, there was this tingling sensation running through me from head to toe. I stopped walking and stared at your grandfather with wide eyes.

“At the second chime my bones started aching and the ache made me groan. Grandpa Jeff was really worried at that point but didn't know what to do, except grab me and stroke my head. Then I noticed that my clothes were suddenly very ill-fitting, hanging off me like a tent. Grandpa had let go of me and was getting taller and taller, whereas I was shrinking, and I couldn't help it!”

“When the bell chimed ten o`clock your grandma had disappeared!” grandpa Jeff explained.

“No way!” Brad shouted.

“You're making this up!” Lisa said, quirking an eyebrow.

“Where was she?” April wanted to know.

Grandpa shrugged, “She wasn't with me anymore, that's for sure. As to where she'd gone, well, that's quite bizarre indeed.I, however, was shocked. When I had halfway gathered my wits I looked about me and called her name, but there was nothing but silence and a soft breeze rustling in the trees. I was frantic with worry!”

“I had shrunk and vanished,” grandma continued, “but only where grandpa was standing, completely dumbstruck. Where I reappeared I was a lioness!”

“I don't believe you,” Tommy said. “It's impossible to turn from a human being into a lioness.”

“I agree, but it still happened to me, I swear.