Robin Waterfield

the body

Fall from innocence

Emma Ouellet

madeleine

The mixture of emotions made ne feel heatsick and headaches.

there was a dreadful exhilaration in seeing things that had bothered me for years come out in a new form, a form which I had imposed control.

and for just one moment we looked into each other's eyes and saw some of the true things that made us friends.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, did you?

Someone had redefined his pain, and redefined it in shockingly common terms. That would have to be examined later. In depth. On long sleepless nights.

I probably would have looked like a jack-in-the-book to anyone watching, but to myself I felt like a boy underwater slow motion, shooting up not through five feet of air but rather moving up through five hundred feet of water, moving slowly, moving with a dreadful languidness as the water parted grudgingly. But at last I did break the surface. The last of the paralysis fell from me and I began to run

..was I enjoying this? Yeah in some peculiar, self destructive way that I have experienced only when completely and utterly drunk. I was.

I went because of the shadows that are always somewhere behind our eyes.

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