Martin Aitken

He knows what he wants to say, but not how to say it

That’s what we’ve been told, yes,” she said.

She looked down on me, I could tell

They were rummaging about in there quite a while.

No one’s done that to me before.”
“I should hope not,” I said. “Nothing unusual apart from that?”

The drudgery of hospital life, that’s about it.”

I said with a smile I was unable to hold back.

To me it was real! I saw it with my own eyes!”
He shook his head.

There was a bustle of activity all around me as I changed and got ready.

Everyone still remembered the bus crash a few years earlier involving forty schoolchildren, seventeen of whom had lost their lives