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Texting To A Worried Mother

17/6/2016

For the victims of the massacre in Orlando, June 2016.

– Just sent pic mum of boyz all havin fun.

– Gettin noisy hr mum. Not sr whatz hapnin. Bangs

– Mad guy out thr. Has GUN I think. We OK wr hidn in toilt. Dont u worry. Wr OK. Keep u infrmd

– Jeez hes firin gun. Think people hrt. Blood evrywhr. Im OK still in toilt

– Scard mum. Hes not far away. Hidin in cubcl. Luv u mum x

– Jeez hes in hr mum. Must be qut. Hope doesnt see us

– Jeez mum hes fnd us x

– Love u mum x

Life-Changing

10/6/2016

Bright light everywhere. Hard to see. Confused, he slowly became aware that he was lying in a bed somewhere, not alone. Two people seated by his bed. He couldn’t make out if they – his parents? – were crying or smiling. Another figure appeared, uniformed, leaned close to him.

“David? Can you hear me?” A nurse, he thought.

“Yes.” A struggle, though. “Where am I?”

“In hospital. What do you remember?”

Vaguely, a car while crossing the road. Nothing more.

“I can’t move.”

No one seemed surprised. The smiles became more tearful.

In A Foreign Land

4/6/2016

She gazed out of the window, then turned around to survey the usual stuff on a languages room’s walls. Teaching French was much the same worldwide, she mused: wallcharts, posters, children’s work with words like “Bonjour!” and “Merci!” in various colours randomly displayed.

Sighing, she turned the vacuum cleaner back on. A casual outsider might have wondered how it had come to this, but for Anna the choice was clear: remain in Poland as a languages teacher, or earn three times as much for her family as a school cleaner in Britain. No-brainer, really. But how she missed the children.

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