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MOVING ON

FABIAN BLACK

Published 2008

MOVING ON

ISBN 978 – 1 – 4092 – 2417 – 4

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Part One

The Dolls House

The dreams returned the night following the visit to the car boot sale.

I awoke with a start, my sweat dampened t-shirt clinging to

my body, chilling me. I could still hear the voice from my dream, a

whisper that seemed to rush from my mind and reverberate

accusingly around the room. I lay still for a moment fighting back a

sense of panic and then got up and headed downstairs, much to Bob’s

delight. He didn’t often get company at this inauspicious hour. Rising

arthritically from his basket he tottered towards me to be petted.

Leaning down I scratched him gently behind the ear and was

rewarded with a rusty purr of appreciation. Scooping him up I

rubbed my cheek against his craggy face for a moment.

“How about you and I have a little nightcap together Bob, huh, how

does that sound?”

His cloudy orange eyes gazed at me approvingly and I gave a small

laugh and set him back down on the floor.

Going to the fridge I got out the milk and poured some into a

bowl, reasoning that at his age he was entitled to have a treat once in

a while, and for that matter so was I. He fell on the forbidden fruit

greedily while I just as greedily helped myself to a large measure of

cooking brandy, the only available alcohol in the house, downing it in