Elroy’s Story VI

The texts I place under the collages are just bits and pieces of the whole. They are there to portray a setting or feeling. One I get the text edited, I will make the story up into an ebook.

A large envelope arrives from Hocpoi in Hei-apshi a few days later. Hei-apshi is a village that is completely in keeping with the meaning of its aboriginal name - a friendly, jolly turmoil of a place. The main part of the village is built at the bottom of a small valley. A mixture of white-brick cottages, ornamental pagodas, straw-roofed chalets and buffalo skin T-pees create a colourful confused atmosphere to the village. The people who reside in town and its surrounding area are also like a jar of mixed-pickles. There is a large colony of garden gnomes, pink flamingos, orphans and senior citizens, which represent the crux of the population. There is also the seasonal fluctuation of lumberjacks in the winter and a large group of swans in the summer.

The area Hocpoi comes from is the fairy and garden-gnome neighbourhood, which is found at the far end of the valley on the border of a large pine forest.