Slip (The Slip Trilogy book 1)
“Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
Each second that passes sends a thump through Janice’s skull. And yet she continues to stare at the face of the wristwatch clutched in her hand. It’s the last memory she has of her lost son. She found the watch when she was clearing out his room, taking all his toys out to the backyard where she would later burn them. Michael wanted to give his things to charity, but she couldn’t bear the thought of any other child playing with them, smiling happily, wearing his clot...hes. Not when her son was dead.
But when she came upon the Zoran wristwatch gathering dust in a drawer, she stuffed it in her pocket. For the rest of the day she could feel it burning a hole in the cloth, until she finally took it out and let it burn her hand.
Was that where the madness began? If she had destroyed the watch along with everything else, would she have been able to move on, have a normal life, avoided the solitary misery of the asylum?MoreLess
Each second that passes sends a thump through Janice’s skull. And yet she continues to stare at the face of the wristwatch clutched in her hand. It’s the last memory she has of her lost son. She found the watch when she was clearing out his room, taking all his toys out to the backyard where she would later burn them. Michael wanted to give his things to charity, but she couldn’t bear the thought of any other child playing with them, smiling happily, wearing his clot...hes. Not when her son was dead.
But when she came upon the Zoran wristwatch gathering dust in a drawer, she stuffed it in her pocket. For the rest of the day she could feel it burning a hole in the cloth, until she finally took it out and let it burn her hand.
Was that where the madness began? If she had destroyed the watch along with everything else, would she have been able to move on, have a normal life, avoided the solitary misery of the asylum?MoreLess
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