06.18.10
Posted by mazzz in Leeds | 39 Comments »
We sit in this enormous room as we have done for the weeks since our convoy was intercepted by the enemy. There are two hundred men incarcerated here, a big drop from the three hundred that we were when we arrived, and more of us disappear daily. We that remain sit in small groups, or lay all day in our allocated bunks which surround the room. We engage in nothing but small talk, careful to let nothing slip about the journey prior to our capture: the walls may well have ears, and the itinerary of the Starship Empress, along with the nature of her cargo, must not be revealed to the enemy. The entire human race depends upon it.
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06.11.10
Posted by mazzz in Leeds | 46 Comments »
He is gone, and I am bereft. Danny has been by my side for what seems like my entire life, and today I had to watch him being lowered into the ground, my heart sinking down with him. I had to sleep in the guest bedroom last night – better to wake up wondering where I am rather than where he is. Danny’s brother Tom, who has come over from Whitby to make the arrangements, understood immediately, and made up the bed in the main bedroom for himself.
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06.04.10
Posted by mazzz in Leeds | 33 Comments »
The sun has only been up for an hour or two and already it is bright enough to hurt my eyes. Well, one of my eyes I should say – the other is swollen shut. I am feeling hotter by the minute, as the rocks absorb every ray of sunlight and blast it back out in all directions. All I can see, at least as far as I am able to turn my head, is rock. White colours mixed with light, reddish brown hues come to an abrupt halt at the top of the rockface, where the cloudless Mediterranean sky takes over and wraps me up in a bubble from which there is no escape.
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