We Hear Voices

We Hear Voices

Adult dystopia
"Billy was so pale his face was a bluish green color. His hair
was slicked back with sweat. His temperature soared while he
shivered. She waited for the next breath. When it didn't come, she
pulled him tighter, trying to use her heart to jump start his."
The world Evie Green portrays in We Hear Voices is a truly
horrific one. Poverty and misery are widespread. The Earth has
become so environmentally downgraded that plans are underway to
colonize another planet. A novel virus with a 20% kill rate and no
vaccine is raging.
Six-year-old Billy becomes deathly ill with the virus, so ill
his mother invites his divorced father to don her quarantine suit and
say goodbye to his son. Amazingly, after he seems to stop breathing,
he gains consciousness and begins to mend.
Although Billy recovers physically he isn't the same. He claims
to hear a voice in his head, a female presence he calls Delfy. At
first she seems to be a benign presence, an imaginary friend perhaps
created to ease the boredom of bed rest. But then Delfy begins to
order Billy to commit horrific acts he doesn't want to do that
escalate until he kills his grandmother.
Billy isn't the only one. In a juvenile psychiatric ward hidden
underground there are children from whom society must be protected,
children who recovered from the virus only to become controlled by
malevolent voices. And they are the tip of the iceberg, the ones
whose families can afford the prohibitively expensive institutional
upkeep.
Although We Hear Voices is billed as horror or thriller I
classify it as dystopia. The only thing more chilling than itse plot
is its plausibility in a not all that distant future.
On a purrrsonal note, I hope you had a great weekend. I did.
Saturday Eugene and I went on a road trip. We were up north so close
to the Canadian border some of the radio stations were in French. We
got subs for lunch which meant I didn't have to cook supper. We ate
at a park in a cute gazebo. While we were driving there was a big
storm with thunder and lightning and torrential rain. It took the
temperature down from high 80's to mid 70's which was quite
refreshing. Sunday Tobago and I went to zoom church. Right before
the service started Pastor Malcolm asked if I wanted to talk to the
congregation about the backpack project. That was so much fun. I
can't wait to see what people put in the box. (Jules)
It is getting a little cooler. (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to our Eugene!
Tobago and Jules Hathaway


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