Two Cows And a Vanful of Smoke (2012)
“I didn’t like it. The food was watery and the air smelt sick, and the other patients snored and moaned. I wanted to leave, but I didn’t want to leave Sam, didn’t want to leave her lying so alone and drifted, like a piece of wood at sea.
I lay in my bed and stared out of the window at the tops of the buildings on the other side of a car park, and I watched the nurses as they did their work. And I slept a dozy sleep, one that slipped in and out of vague dreams and thoughts and fears. One minu...te I was imagining Dickens appearing in a doctor’s coat, leaning over me with poison in a syringe, the next I was seeing Spike in a dream, struggling in the waves of a sea storm, lifted up and dropped down again, always just out of my reach. Then I’d see Sam’s smiling face, blood trickling from a wound in the top of her head, her mouth opening and closing, and her eyes black. And slowly, as the hours went by and the thoughts curdled in my head, I began to hate myself, the things I’d done and the weakness I’d shown.MoreLess
I lay in my bed and stared out of the window at the tops of the buildings on the other side of a car park, and I watched the nurses as they did their work. And I slept a dozy sleep, one that slipped in and out of vague dreams and thoughts and fears. One minu...te I was imagining Dickens appearing in a doctor’s coat, leaning over me with poison in a syringe, the next I was seeing Spike in a dream, struggling in the waves of a sea storm, lifted up and dropped down again, always just out of my reach. Then I’d see Sam’s smiling face, blood trickling from a wound in the top of her head, her mouth opening and closing, and her eyes black. And slowly, as the hours went by and the thoughts curdled in my head, I began to hate myself, the things I’d done and the weakness I’d shown.MoreLess
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