Christmas Wish
“All these years she’d borne the brunt of that woman’s vindictiveness. All these years she’d waited for a father who never came. In her heart of hearts she knew he was as much to blame for the deprivation she’d endured as Aunt Bridget.
What are you running away from?
The thought popped into her head from nowhere; unless you have a guardian angel, she thought. What am I running away from? Aunt Bridget? The past? Or am I running away from the thought of failure; that Winnie might not be true to he...r word, or might die before my dream is fulfilled?
Carrying negative thoughts in her head slowed her speed, as though they were too heavy to bear.
She came to a bend in the river where houses gave way to a view of a black mud bank, except that the mud wasn’t just mud but a stew of stinks and substances. The smell was mostly of sulphur from the gasworks and rotting bones from the fertiliser plant. When the wind dropped it wasn’t so bad.
From a stone-lined parapet, she watched barges making their way up and down the river.MoreLess
What are you running away from?
The thought popped into her head from nowhere; unless you have a guardian angel, she thought. What am I running away from? Aunt Bridget? The past? Or am I running away from the thought of failure; that Winnie might not be true to he...r word, or might die before my dream is fulfilled?
Carrying negative thoughts in her head slowed her speed, as though they were too heavy to bear.
She came to a bend in the river where houses gave way to a view of a black mud bank, except that the mud wasn’t just mud but a stew of stinks and substances. The smell was mostly of sulphur from the gasworks and rotting bones from the fertiliser plant. When the wind dropped it wasn’t so bad.
From a stone-lined parapet, she watched barges making their way up and down the river.MoreLess
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