The Curious Narrative
Hints.
Secrets.
Tales of foreboding.
Keeping the secret in plain sight.
Heredity.
Genetics.
Memory.
Family histories.
Family hysteria.
Everyone knew about Aunty Margaret didn’t they?
No.
Remnants of stories.
The beginning.
The middle.
The end.
But never all three.
Pick ’n’ mix ’n’ match.
Huge assumptions.
It’s obvious!
No it’s not.
Whispers.
Hand-me-downs.
Itching and scratching and never quite fitting.
A child among adults
Never understanding…
Until…
That moment in adulthood when at last the penny drops.
The shoe falls.
The switch is flicked.
Can never now be unseen.
