The Great Escape
‘Why did you do it?’ I asked. ‘It wasn’t me, sir.’ Jack slouched on the armchair, picking at a piece of thread. ‘I found your
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‘Why did you do it?’ I asked. ‘It wasn’t me, sir.’ Jack slouched on the armchair, picking at a piece of thread. ‘I found your
When I was five, it was just Daddy and me. He didn’t walk in the door with bags of sweets anymore. He had to pick
‘How long?’ I breathed down the phone. ‘Weeks,’ Martin’s voice choked back. The day after, at four o’clock in the afternoon, I popped around to
Fourteen foster homes in fourteen years. Every year, a new home. There was always something. Not the right fit, just a temporary thing, they had
‘Mum, can we go now?’ Samuel groaned, tugging his mum’s Gillet as she perused a selection of begonias. ‘Almost, darling.’ She read a tag. Samuel
Change comes to us all. A tight-knit family, torn by disagreement. A pandemic that alters the very idea of human interaction. Change came to me.
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