Tag: assault
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Nineteen. A worm
The night had been merciful to Patrick. Ravaged by all the tensions of the day and his imaginings (what danger might Karen be in, or the unthinkable – was it already too late?) he had wanted to keep going; to keep up his search for her. Even after he abandoned his vigil in Nowhere Lane…
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Nowhere Lane – Chapter Nine. Outrage
No escape. The man’s big hand clamped to Karen’s mouth reduced her cries to muffled gasping as she fought for breath. In seconds his arm about her waist had lifted her bodily from behind, carrying her into the shadows beneath the bridge. Once hidden from the street above, he spun her around. Her mouth…
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It’s no use calling, Pandora – they won’t come back
It was at Sunday School that someone told me either Adam or Eve (I don’t remember which) invented Original Sin, which I eventually understood to mean anything involving two bodies getting within touching distance of one another; especially if a certain kind of touching was involved. Superficially, I took in old, cracked oil paintings of…
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