Five Ways

Author: Rob Kennedy

Five Ways is a junction of streets in Paddington, Sydney, NSW Australia.

In the centre of this junction you have five ways that you can go. Joanne Southlake stood in the centre of Five Ways looking to find her direction; she was looking for the right way to go.

Joanne Southlake… 33-24-33. These aren't her measurements - this is her life. She's 33 years old. She lives at 24 Heart Street Paddington, she moved there because she loved its name and she has 33 years to live, she thinks.  Jo's blog describes her as, sometimes single, fantastic at her job, always on time, easily heartbroken and thoroughly committed. Just what Jo is committed to, well she’s unsure. Just like us all really.

 

Jo’s world is moving, fast and happening. She has a hip job, people who love her; a guy and a girl. She also has a caring but crazy family. She wants something; she’s unsure what it is. People take her in directions that she thinks might work, but when she is about to make a decision that will change her life, something extraordinary happens. She gets abducted by aliens.

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Five Ways, a novelette of about 10,000 words by Sydney author Rob Kennedy.