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May 28, 2009

Thursday

Are you threatening me?

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‘Are you threatening me?’

‘As if,’ she thinks to herself, but dares not say it to him.

Never would she provoke the swaying bulky form, its fists before her. The question, ‘Are you threatening me?’ forms part of the nightly drunken ritual she knows too well. And each evening she repeats the same words over and again in her head, ‘One day…one day…one day…one day, I’m gonna leave him, yes one day I’ll get outta here.’ She watches the kitchen clock, counting down the minutes toward his final collapse for the night, until he passes out. Tomorrow is too soon.

Posted by: Sally at May 28, 2009 7:34 AM · Permalink