Pre-read Crazy enough to love me…. The strange fruit series 1
I have never met a human being who does not have a dysfunctionality on one level or another and if they say they don’t or act perfect Run! Those are most likely to be some really deep demons down there hiding somewhere and when they come out play maybe just maybe you don’t want to be around (laughing). Love, real love in my world is hard work and costs you something that isn’t money that’s why in 2017 … most people don’t do “real love…” fraudulent, yes real no… get a pet much simpler.
Cloud was born a “Seven” humans with Angel DNA a special blood chosen at ancient of days to lead us (humanity) or at least his clan the wolf pack in spiritual warfare against the “bold head” and legion . We step into his world , contemptuous of humanity and very weary of fighting for it for his own varied reasons a deep inner conflict a rises … the same humanity that will become apocalyptic until the last days also holds his loved one’s and they will get swept into that storm if he doesn’t fight , we step into his world a mind court in conflicting sways of decision making and timely task completion to protect those that he loves including killing himself, self-perseveration vs Self sacrifice … at the start .“Strange fruit is what brought me here, it’s what I am, I just want to leave some normal fruit in this world to leave some love to leave my mark?” and that Cloud takes us back to the start of his life in post-colonial Zimbabwe a time of so called integration, a time when inter racial relationships that we take for granted today were a taboo approached with caution and distrust not so much because of racism it was just a time when old wounds needed healing, it was also a time when children were seen and not heard . A time before Facebook and twitter where people just did not say whatever they wanted without thinking of the ramifications of their words “what happened in the house stayed in the house” and that was law.
Seen and not to be heard born in a time when children did not speak back to their parents or else they would face the wrath of a leather strap or worse , we are taken into a world of two young lovers and the “wolf pack” where their innocence struggles to breathe and is seemingly being stripped away from them painfully and slowly , but like most human beings they adapt to preserve their sanity and sense of love it doesn’t have to make sense to world if it works dysfunctionality . He is African and he has just lost his father a young boy and struggles on the path to masculinity as well as the natural challenges of going through puberty and the complexities that arise from his home environment as his mother attempts to find the right way to raise them alone as well as the complex process of integration going at school . Detta is white and she has also lost her mother to breast cancer , her guide to her femininity she faces the same challenges as he does accept that after her mother’s death her father has become emotionally vacant and withdrawn so in their own strange ways they are both father less, they are drawn to each other’s brokenness seemingly unaware of each other’s race , but very aware of I am a boy and you’re a girl and this strange feeling they have for each other which has all the characteristics of love but is it ? At only 12 years old they trying to deal with not only their past’s but unsure futures, puberty, and the present, but the issue of identity created by the new independent Zimbabwe and people constantly imposing their values and opinions on them that contradict the feelings they have for each other, and so they struggle with their parents “do as I say not as I do” attitudes and we all know children learn from what they see not what you say . They hold onto each for dear life as they wade through the fog of change as they try to figure out what traditions to hold onto and leave , what new things to embrace and leave while dealing with the fear of the walk into the unknown with the knowledge that time never moves backward for anybody, life is a unpredictable and everything happens in the blink of an eye. They face 3 realities how they see the world, how people in world see things and what’s really going on minus the bull shit in between. Along the journey, they are joined by the “Wolf pack” a brotherhood of friends who confide in each to retain their sanity from their home lives, a family away from a family built on unorthodox love.
To entertain educated make you laugh and have fun along the way while brushing on issues humanity has trouble telling the truth about . Funny a times and painfully honest looking at issues people would rather sweep under the rug out of shame escapism or the simple fact that to confront the issue would force them (the adults ) to take a very good look in the mirror and either live in that prison forever or change. The Strange fruit is simply the bi products of the situations they are forced to adapt to and evolve around and how it affects their adult lives in the latter years. They are the strange fruit and if you look in the mirror maybe just maybe, you are to? Walk with us find out
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