Chained in a dark van racing across America
Claudia Hampton
Slipping into the bathroom in secret
suspended in time 'for however long he lasts before he crumbles'
she becomes more and more convinced that she's being followed - sighting a motorbike exactly like Danny's everywhere she goes
Gavin Mccrea: Cells: memories for my mother [2022] hardback Condition:New Chained in a dark van'Are you going into town today?' she says, which annoys me because it's something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, 'Jesus, Mum, not this again,' and she says, 'What again?' and I say, 'Town is shut down,' and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can only look at my plate, and I decide not to bring up what I intended to bring up,