The water was as hot as he could bear it to be and he deliberately tilted his head from side to side to fill his ears with water and lay quite still with his head immersed. He had missed baths and this is what he liked to do in them. He closed his eyes and relaxed in the darkness letting it wash over him in waves. The thought comforted and caressed him.
31, December 2007
30, December 2007
A New Start
It was a new start. He must have walked past that boarded up house a hundred times and not noticed it. The front garden had a high wall with a substantial iron gate and the bushes must have been ten foot high with only a small gap between them through which to glimpse the front door. (more…)
