Far Beyond Hereafter Part One

Team leader Renee peered out of her faux gold window around a pulsing Friday noon. “Almost like we’re puppets of each other down there. Maybe everywhere?” Albert, her partner and co-worker were apt to look down on the buzz where their joint venture, their central office, was located. Quite often hoards of people of all age groups hung out, shrieked with joy, abandon, near the hazy plume cafe. They were snacking and sharing purchases. There was rainbow signage to the left of this group promoting all the companies within Renee, and Albert’s brief. The name of their company was Hereafter Unlimited. Close and “trustworthy” friends formed this postgraduate 7 person cluster which later evolved into quite a mind-bogglingly complex concern. Hair-raising hubs were hatched. Geniuses one and all created one matrix after another of sequential self-financing companies. Ideas among them spread like avalanches. Songs and puns were sung. They had “flames” or “wildfire” intensity at their fingertips. They were at the mercy of their own brilliance. Their aim was to bring countryside joys into every nook and cranny in their chosen capital. There were bookstores, clubs, restaurants and other outlets named after the multifaceted rustic charms that obsessed them. Each outlet had a communal dining area to draw in clientele. The underlying idea behind all these shops, stores, stations was to have a magnetic pull. Havens, an escape hatch that would leave an out of this world impression on the visitor. From energetic background music to kaleidoscopic screens, to elaborately sculpted tables, mahogany tint chairs, azure blue halo moon menus, kid zones in high jinx. Cascade after cascade of hue swirls in tandem with jubilant dance trope very much in evidence. A magic merry go round motif underpinned each inventive hub. Once savoured, never forgotten. Festivity a frequent festoon, mouth watering smorgasbord without rein running riot. The element of surprise, key and kernel to atmospheres that thrived on visionary continuum