





faded as Christian left childhood proper and entered a high school renowned for its yard brutality. As a loner, naturally he was a target and every day was a knife-edge of being neither too soft nor too hard in character to bring attention to himself. Every day in this aspect, was a day without success. He didn't have to wait too long before the violence found him... Excerpt - Spectacular Science |
a bell: the brutal end of my life. The heinous words and deeds of he who killed me rang in my ears and burned into my retina. I watched my blood run and my body brace as the cold steel repeatedly fell. I witnessed in the flame the end of my innocence hailed in a word; one solitary word, thudding and thick – pounding on my ear like a gunshot blast, and clinking off the tongue like a spent shell hitting the deck: ‘Cunt.’ He spat. Then darkness fell.
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dogs when the hospital called. The voice at the other end broke the news in gentle and patient tones. The headlines oozed like fat from the receiver, and he saw in his mind the swell of stinking fluid flowing from the corners of his father’s gaping mouth. ‘He’s gone,’ the voice said.
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