Fear: the master of illusion and delusion. When you turn round to face him, he dissolves in such unexpected ways. There was a hiatus in the violence – in fact it was a permanent stoppage, but I couldn’t know that at the time. I had knelt on the carpet in the front room and shouted …
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The Phone Call
Memory may iron out the pain, giving things a uniform blandness, but somewhere within, the capacity to relive exists to bring back the past with a lucidity that can overwhelm and transport you back into itself. There was a phone call, seven years after the last time I was punched. I am standing at the …
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