Gwendolen pulled the blanket close to her and held it in place with her chin, keeping the warmth within and the creeping cold of the world out. The night would bring with it unwelcome visitors in the form of questions, snapshots of the past and visions of the future. They appeared like badgers, creeping around in the darkness before bearing their vicious teeth when light stunned them. She felt the cold on her face and it chilled her throat as she drew in breath and she worried about the boys upstairs and hoped their faces and toes were not cold as they peeked from the polar ends of their blankets. If the cold only permeated as far as her skin then the guilt of turning off the heating seeped heavy and dark to her core and settled in her marrow. Its weight seemed to send her deeper into the sand, where checking bank balances were avoided at all costs and letters left glued shut and mosacing the hallway. The oil level sensor that was plugged into the kitchen wall had become her biggest foe.
Yr Ochr Arall / The Other Side
Yr Ochr Arall / The Other Side
Yr Ochr Arall / The Other Side
Gwendolen pulled the blanket close to her and held it in place with her chin, keeping the warmth within and the creeping cold of the world out. The night would bring with it unwelcome visitors in the form of questions, snapshots of the past and visions of the future. They appeared like badgers, creeping around in the darkness before bearing their vicious teeth when light stunned them. She felt the cold on her face and it chilled her throat as she drew in breath and she worried about the boys upstairs and hoped their faces and toes were not cold as they peeked from the polar ends of their blankets. If the cold only permeated as far as her skin then the guilt of turning off the heating seeped heavy and dark to her core and settled in her marrow. Its weight seemed to send her deeper into the sand, where checking bank balances were avoided at all costs and letters left glued shut and mosacing the hallway. The oil level sensor that was plugged into the kitchen wall had become her biggest foe.