Dying Fall
“Bazza had been given a hero’s welcome – as befitted a man who had been abroad – and for well over an hour the rest of them listened, as Bazza talked about clear blue skies, pubs right on the beach and – most importantly – birds with big knockers who wore hardly anything at all.
Yet even though he spoke with great enthusiasm about the whole experience, it seemed to Beresford that – underneath it all – he was not happy in himself.
And perhaps that was because he didn’t actually know who himself w...as, any more.
Beresford had come to the chip shop armed with a plan – or maybe, he admitted to himself, it was not so much a plan as a line of approach – but it was another hour before he could get Bazza far enough away from the rest of the gang to be able to put it into effect.
And even then, he hesitated.
‘Tread very carefully,’ Woodend had warned him, and he’d promised he would.
What he was about to do was not careful at all. It was fraught with dangers and pitfalls, and if it went wrong, he would get a stomping which could cripple him for life.MoreLess
Yet even though he spoke with great enthusiasm about the whole experience, it seemed to Beresford that – underneath it all – he was not happy in himself.
And perhaps that was because he didn’t actually know who himself w...as, any more.
Beresford had come to the chip shop armed with a plan – or maybe, he admitted to himself, it was not so much a plan as a line of approach – but it was another hour before he could get Bazza far enough away from the rest of the gang to be able to put it into effect.
And even then, he hesitated.
‘Tread very carefully,’ Woodend had warned him, and he’d promised he would.
What he was about to do was not careful at all. It was fraught with dangers and pitfalls, and if it went wrong, he would get a stomping which could cripple him for life.MoreLess
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