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    Sweat Dreams
    Sweat Dreams
    Sweat Dreams
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    Sweat Dreams

    By Lindsay Johannsen

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    Dreams are just dreams, right? And as Jack Cadney says in my towering literary work "McCullock's Gold", how can dreams have any meaning when everything in them is so crazy? ...And yet, on rare occasions, someone dreams some winning lottery numbers or which horse will win the Melbourne Cup. Oh yes. And for your information, a "Sydney Harbour" is the standard Australian unit of mega-gargantuan volume.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLindsay Johannsen
    Release dateJan 9, 2015
    ISBN9781310859953
    Sweat Dreams
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    Lindsay Johannsen

    There's not a lot to tell really, though on reflection, looking back on it through the lens of one’s recollections and memories, the whole business seems more akin to an extended Huckleberry Finn adventure, but set in the vastness of Central Australia. Born, raised and schooled in Alice Springs; taken from the leafy glades of learning mid-way through Year-eight to work at my father's remote little copper mine; later employed for some years driving his cattle-hauling road trains – him having pioneered road trains and the cattle hauling business (see "Kurt Johannsen: A Son of the Red Centre"). Married in the fullness of time; built a bush homestead on the northern edge of the Simpson Desert and raised a family there, all while running a small tungsten mining business and provisioning the hundred or so Aboriginal people local to the area who adopted us. Sold our mine and homestead a few years after the kids had flown the coop, acquired a forty foot (12m) touring coach, converted it into a big steel-wheel mobeel Palaise-de-passion motor home and took to the roads of this great land of Oz - in the main visiting our offspring (most of whom had moved to coastal regions), our grandchildren generally and a couple of great grandies, plus various friends and associates from years gone by. So these days all I have to do is keep the missus happy – my Bride my Precious Lamb and Flower of the Early Mid Morning. 'Anywhere you wish, my darling,' I tell her. 'You just say the word and we'll be on our way.' So it's free as the breeze, we are now, out and about having wild and exciting adventures and being amazingly cool generally. Best job I ever had.

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      Sweat Dreams - Lindsay Johannsen

      SWEAT DREAMS

      Published by Lindsay Johannsen at Smashwords

      Copyright Lindsay Johannsen 2015

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes.

      This alleged story is presented to you free of cost. I insist on maintaining my copyright, however, though until such time as I amend this notice please feel free to disseminate, reproduce, copy or distribute it amongst your friends and/or enemies to your heart’s content, provided you do this for non-commercial purposes only and the story remains complete and in its original form. My preference, however, is for you to recommend to others that they download the Sweat Dreams story from Smashwords themselves, so enriching my life with a warm glow of satisfaction in lieu of any monetary reward.

      Thank you.

      National Library Of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication data:

      Author: Johannsen, Lindsay Andrew

      Title: Sweat Dreams

      Cover art and design bungled by the author.

      Also published at Smashwords by

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