Tag: Mortality

  • If not now, when?

    If not now, when?

    January, 1984. Calcot, Reading. 

    I’m 8 years old walking home from school with my friend Jamie. 

    We’re walking along a pathway that cuts through our housing estate. The sort of path that passes by everyone’s back fence. 

    There is an open bit of scrubland along the path and I find a Tesco bag in the long grass.

    I couldn’t tell you why I was looking, just the curious mind of a young boy idly walking home from school I guess – but inside the Tesco bag is something wrapped in a blood stained sheet.

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