Area 53

Born in the village of Moore in the Borough of Halton, located midway between Runcorn and Warrington in Cheshire, England, where his father was a licensed victualler, Rik de Mora gave up a promising career on the Mersey Ferries to follow his dream of being a session musician at Abbey Road. He never actually played his guitar in any Beatles' sessions, though he often claimed that he had. Now, he's decided to write fiction and it's up to you to decide how well that's turned out. We asked him why he took to writing; he said: "I write to become the lives I cannot live, and to take their stories into futures I will never see. I write to chart the stars that lie beyond my reach, and to make these unknowns feel like home." This story is set in the twenty-fifth century. So, it could be prescience, or fiction, or even written by a time traveller-you choose. That said, if you bother to Google it (other internet search engines are available!), you'll find that most of what you read here is true... Weird, eh? Still, it's a great story. You'll enjoy it!