Part 2: The Crash
by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono
I opened my eyes in confusion. Where was I? Palms and sand and water everywhere. And why was I laying naked in the sand like a stranded mermaid?
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 8 – America First
My righteous dictatorship in Britain was in full bloom: I was an unrelenting, visionary and hard-working empress, I restored law and order, put the British nation back into line, and started a European war in order to kill Steve Bannon, who was working on a world conspiracy here. My vest as the highest military commander …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 7 – A State Affair
After the Brexit in 2019 the Great British Empire’s citizens had voted for me as their new leader. As first official act I had sent Teresa May and the rest of the parliament into Gulag and replaced them with my relatives and friends. On Christmas Eve’s Teresa was allowed to go out and serve us …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 6 – Palace Tiger
It was night and I was listening to Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and dreaming of Vienna. It was my biggest dream to live there one day, an impossible dream… The men with bloomers and sabers arrived at midnight and dragged me out of my parents’ frugal house. I was a poor peasant girl …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 5 – Kiss of the Scorpion
It was my third day in the desert. Everything had gone terribly wrong.At the meeting point at the gates of the Sahara there had been a shootout between the ransom extortionists and government officials. The kidnappers dragged me into the jeep and drove into the desert. They cursed incessantly and decided that I was a …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 4 – Strange Mission
It was strange to come back from my one-year Mossad training in the Middle East and return to my small life as a taxi chauffeur. In the end they decided that I should be the test person for a new super-spy-car that was supposedly better than Bond’s Aston Martin. From the outside it was a …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 3 – Lady Vengeance
We were having our weekly meeting to discuss the latest operations.I starred at my people- those wankers, I hated them all. But since I had taken over my father’s crime syndicate after he passed away last year, I had to deal with them.Franco this loser was trying to explain the missing amount of protection money. …
Simon Le Bon Chronicles 1
Part 1: In The Pleasure Groove by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono It is a hot summer night and I go to a Duran Duran concert. I enter the arena and fight my way to the front row to see my Simon. The lights go down and ‘Planet Earth’ strikes up. I can’t hear myself screaming, …