Another time. A dream. The castle sieged, a tower without a keep. Inside, a truth to be told. You consider your existence and evaluate. A time for change or if it’s too late. Dismay portrayed by cautious words, you never thought I’d heard, this time were clear. The things that you do, they do nothing for me.
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Notes: I incorporated some revised lyrics from songs by The Flowers of Despair, a band I co-founded with Jez Howard (sister of Rob Howard). The story is an exercise in historic revisionism, a bitter fantasy depicting a greater truth. In other words, fiction. The story title comes from the song lyrics of a song sung by Sandie Shaw.
‘I Know That Now But I Didn’t Know That Then‘ by Paul Busst is a collection of tales of the diminutive published by Phantom Page and is available in paperback.
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