non-fiction

Here, her eyes spoke deader. Heart longs for yonder.
Missing, just like her false teeth. Was her life meant for something more?
Just because.

To Misty

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession was believed to be particularly effective against various diseases.

Well that put me firmly in my place. Here was me popping with hormones and him popping out zeds.

Tuesday 23rd April 2013.

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession was believed to be particularly effective against various diseases.

Travelling on the London Underground

Friday 19th April

I looked at the thermometer this morning and it told me the cold weather was back and summer was over. It always seemed longer when I was a child.

What!

And did she mean for the next ten minutes or did she mean permanently? What the hell kind of mess had I got myself into now?

‘You’re staying with her?’

‘Nobody sits alone in here, come on, get up.’

He had hold of my hand and was just about pulling it out of its socket.

‘I can’t,’ I croaked.

Hanchurch is a word covered in pine needles.

Thursday 18th April 2013

The Sea

Ocean sunshine

Wednesday 15th April 2013

Last Friday I had a text from Dan.

Wednesday 18th April 2013.

I’m thinking of starting my own Fat Club. Talking to Sue it seems like money for old rope. £15 membership and fleece them for another fiver every time they come along to get weighed.

Dad did tell me a few things---about how close we came to losing the War, if Britain fell.

So that you don't have to, your correspondent has listened to every* version of All Along The Watchtower available on Spotify.

Tuesday 17th April 2013.