Creative Writing: A Sunday

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

for it. Drinking in death.

Her voice shakes when she asks for two sections. She wants it far too much.
Practised that too in her head over and over in the nights. Listening to
them in the corridors. If Mary shits herself again tonight she can sleep in
it. Listening to the cries and the calling, I have to get home. I have to,
the children want their dinner. She sits in the bus away from the window.
Afraid to look out. Cars and people on the footpath. People watching. For
her. Tom says it's a nice place, Mum. Warm and clean and friendly and
plenty to do. Except that everything to do there ends up with dying and
there are better places to do that and better people to do it with.

She grips the sides of the seat with her hands and they are hot and
sweating. Jack said I don't want to leave you, Jess. Jess? And she took his
head in her hands and cradled him against her body. Rocked and rocked him,
tender and gentle for the last time and whispered to him and held him
strong and tight ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

red-capped boy swooping in and
out of the crowd on his skate-board. It is how Jean Legget broke her hip
and she steps quickly back and a woman drives an elbow into her shoulder.
Sorry, sorry, Frightened now. There is a man playing a guitar and singing
loudly. She closes her eyes. Back. Still get back for lunch. Not even
missed. Tomato soup and scrambled eggs and little triangles of dry toast.
Tuesday. Eat up girls. Lovely lunch. Easy to go back, (just in the garden,
lovely day). Except she promised.

She opened her eyes. Think. Think hard. stay still and slow and think. She
looked every day at the timetables. Tuesday. Eleven-fifteen departure. She
folds her arms around her body and ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: