Creative Writing: A Sunday

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for it. Drinking in death.

Her voice shakes when she asks for two sections. She wants it far too much.
Practised that too in her head over and over in the nights. Listening to them in
the corridors. If Mary shits herself again tonight she can sleep in it.
Listening to the cries and the calling, I have to get home. I have to, the
children want their dinner. She sits in the bus away from the window. Afraid to
look out. Cars and people on the footpath. People watching. For her. Tom says
it's a nice place, Mum. Warm and clean and friendly and plenty to do. Except
that everything to do there ends up with dying and there are better places to do
that and better people to do it with.

She grips the sides of the seat with her hands and they are hot and sweating.
Jack said I don't want to leave you, Jess. Jess? And she took his head in her
hands and cradled him against her body. Rocked and rocked him, tender and gentle
for the last time and whispered to him and held him strong and tight ...

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red-capped boy swooping in and out of the
crowd on his skate-board. It is how Jean Legget broke her hip and she steps
quickly back and a woman drives an elbow into her shoulder. Sorry, sorry,
Frightened now. There is a man playing a guitar and singing loudly. She closes
her eyes. Back. Still get back for lunch. Not even missed. Tomato soup and
scrambled eggs and little triangles of dry toast. Tuesday. Eat up girls. Lovely
lunch. Easy to go back, (just in the garden, lovely day). Except she promised.

She opened her eyes. Think. Think hard. stay still and slow and think. She
looked every day at the timetables. Tuesday. Eleven-fifteen departure. She folds
her arms around her body and ...

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