A Writer’s Story

A little girl crawls through coils of barbed wire decorated with a skull and crossbones. ‘A sign shouts ‘Unexploded bombs!’ A thirteen year old boy climbs into the back of an abandoned car in a field and prepares for the long night. A hugely pregnant young Englishwoman lies on a couch with a view of the Mediterranean. She is dictating a script to a famous film star who leaps round the furniture. A young soldier boards ship, part of a defeated army, and as he waves farewell, screaming out the names of the dead to the jagged coast, a shell blows away his arm. A woman, no longer young, looks beyond bars to the sky, while a choir of prisoners sing ‘I believe…’
Fact and Fiction. Fiction and Fact.
A distinguished peers’s trousers fall down during a royal ceremony in Windsor Castle.
I could go on. But now I’m publishing ‘A Writer’s Story.’