Brief Summary

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Based on the Jack Funnybone/Fate series, The Thread Cutter is a work of speculative fiction set on an intergalactic timeless realm of existence called the etheric plane.

 

The action commences with ATROPOS (a goddess of Fate and the anti-hero) singing with joy at the prospect of finally ridding the world of JACK FUNNYBONE (the hero).

 

Atropos accuses our hero of a litany of transgressions and crimes including murder, mockery and misogyny and insists that the time has come for him to die.

 

Presided over by DEATH a trial is held with the arguments for presented by Atropos and those against by the ABSTRACT FORCES  and CONCEPTS.

 

Following an examination of the Akashic Records our hero is cleared of charges of reckless and dangerous driving, animal cruelty and elder abuse. The allegation that our hero has engaged in defamatory mockery is also withdrawn as the abstract forces and concepts successfully contend that as a comedian he is entitled to free expression.

 

During the viewing of the Akashic Records our hero recounts the death of Jo King (his comedienne boarder and would-be lover) and admits that now she is gone, he misses her more than he first thought. He acknowledges that maybe he did love her after all and comes to the tearful realisation that if he had loved her in the same way she had loved him, her death may have been avoided. He proclaims that Fate on many counts has conspired against him, and with one expletive after another, denounces and derides Fate for being evil, cruel and loathsome.

 

Atropos, incensed, accuses Jack of being a foul-mouthed ignorant fool, who is nothing less than an outright murderer and mudslinger. The abstracts realising all is lost, watch on in gasps of muted horror as an enraged Atropos eyeballs our hero and thrusts out her shears.

 

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