"A chance meeting with a old encounter brings opportunity and the conclusion one step nearer"
A thick fog had descended on us. It came creeping off the Thames at dusk and now clung to every corner of the city, still and unmoving. It was Saturday night, October 31st, Halloween. I was sitting in the back...
"Home at last, Joseph receives a visit from a friend"
Seven weeks later, I was taken in a wheelchair by a nurse, a hospital porter and my mother, from ward 3B on the fourth floor, into a service lift heading to level zero. Somebody within the walls of this building had...
"Joseph reflects on the past and an unexpected visitor draws him in"
BEEP…BEEP…BEEP.Plumes of thick smoke rise from the small piles of burning leaves that are dotted around the ancient church cemetery, stinging the eyes of the mourners and choking their lungs, as they file out into the murky gloom of the...
"Unexpected news spoils the joy of being free"
June 2016<Woke up early with this sickly feeling in the pit of my stomach.As I write this the sun is just breaking through, casting a golden glow onto the painted brickwork above the cell door, bringing a new day and...
"Curiosity, it is said, kills the cat"
December 2015< It was another sleepless night; I have got kind of used to the odd noises that resonate inside this old building. Not only the clicks and clangs from the ageing pipework, but the guys who shout out indecipherable...
"Christopher is allowed a brief glimpse of the world that he and Olivia have entered"
November 2015< Incarceration. Whoever it was that first devised that word and its meaning, captured the cold isolation that exists inside this institution perfectly. Locked away from the world and loved ones, unable to do anything but wait. Even the...
"Christopher learns of Olivia’s decision, and receives a surprise glimpse into the future"
October 2015< News travels quickly in this place, bad news I found out travels quicker. The whispers and furtive, sideways looks at breakfast time told me that there have been a development. I could imagine what was being said, if...
"Olivia’s choice."
August 2015< Michael Dolan arrived at my cell door last night. Dolan is or was an infamous London gangster. He was also the psychotic ringleader of a gang of thugs here. He is what they call a ‘lifer,’ in for...
Part oneSpring 2020. The streets were quiet and empty. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, not even a single line of vapour trail spoiled the perfectly clear blue.My children were playing happily in the back garden and enjoying the...
"A chance encounter on a train leads to a precarious coupling"
I can’t explain it, and I’m really not sure I want to. It’s been there for so long that I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t, this desire for vulnerability, the risk of being caught, and the exhilarating threat...