BACKGROUND

These stories were written between 1993 and 1996

Friday, 2 April 2010

THE DUTIES OF WENDY MAYHEM

Wendy Mayhem acted inappropriately at unexpected moments in time. She walked through rules as if they weren’t there. For indeed for her they weren’t. She was always in possession of long lists of complaints for damages which so it seemed she had committed. And there were people all around her expressing anger.


This is how she came to learn about rules in retrospect.


And so she gained a definition of the shape of the world much as one feels out the shape of a cheek by blowing air into it. For what is a cheek but a piece of skin balanced between two tides of air? The face changes as does the balance.


Wendy Mayhem had her duty to do even though those around her tried as best they could to suck in her cheeks until the skin clung to the bone. But it was no good staying that way all the time.

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