Tag: guilt
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Tony Sent Me…
A frigid sun, not bright, lights this scene. A car park, rarely so busy at this time of day, is crammed with shoppers on errands of desperation, pattering busily to and fro carrying bags stuffed to the gills with toilet rolls, tinned foods, more toilet rolls… Tomorrow is lock-down day (again). Another month of incarceration…
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Mary
Tonight he finds her in his living room, seated in her favorite chair, gazing out at the view of the city beyond their window. “Mary?” “Who else?” She turns to greet him. “It is you, Mary! It really is you! Why here, of all places?” “Oh, Richard, come on, you’ve been here before –…
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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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