Rock a Bye Baby
“He hadn’t seen her pass and she didn’t want him to. Just lately she’d made a point of avoiding contact simply because it was difficult to be civil. Every time her eyes met his she saw a man who might have done something terrible to her mother, and still she couldn’t confront him. She kept asking herself why that should be so, but couldn’t come up with an answer.
She exchanged a wave with Mr Ellis as she passed his back gate. The smell of turned earth was strong in the air. No big surprise reall...y. Mr Ellis, his bald pate gleaming with sweat, was leaning on his shovel. He was dwarfed by a mountain of earth excavated from his nuclear fallout shelter. She wondered whether the shelter would ever be completed in time for the Third World War that everyone insisted was coming.
The back garden of number ten, Endeavour Terrace, was a lot quieter than it used to be since the demise of the chickens. Tony Brooks was now using their shed for storage and his new lawnmower. Marcie had never known him do any gardening whatsoever before and certainly not mowing a lawn.MoreLess
She exchanged a wave with Mr Ellis as she passed his back gate. The smell of turned earth was strong in the air. No big surprise reall...y. Mr Ellis, his bald pate gleaming with sweat, was leaning on his shovel. He was dwarfed by a mountain of earth excavated from his nuclear fallout shelter. She wondered whether the shelter would ever be completed in time for the Third World War that everyone insisted was coming.
The back garden of number ten, Endeavour Terrace, was a lot quieter than it used to be since the demise of the chickens. Tony Brooks was now using their shed for storage and his new lawnmower. Marcie had never known him do any gardening whatsoever before and certainly not mowing a lawn.MoreLess
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