Snake Jaw
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I dedicate this book, with special thanks, to Emily Kersing and David Jackson, for caring when I didn’t. Thanks also to the team at LegumeMan Books for their hard work, belief and making all of this happen.
Gerald Phalanx was six and unhappy when his family decided to move to the country. They moved north of a large town, by a lake that turned black at certain times of the year. The lake was one of the very few things that interested Gerald. He would spend a lot of time there during the black season, skimming flat rocks across the surface of the water. He loved the way the rocks would float and leave a little trail of ripples like a swimming reptile.
He didn’t get along with many of the kids at school, and showed sophistication above the level of his peers. He considered them country bumpkins.
“That’s an odd generalisation for a child so young,” his teachers would say.
“He’s never really been a normal boy,” Mrs. Phalanx explained. “He takes after his father.”