This one is turning out to be longer than a short. Some of the characters are vile bigots. If you don't know English swearing, be prepared to learn a lot of new words. To be continued...
Just finished this so I can continue on to part 2, and I really enjoyed this dark scenario. Having grown up with a British mum and lots of BBC mysteries, I was already acquainted with the foul talk.
I have spent a good deal of time in the UK, but never in this milieu, obviously. You set me down right in the middle of them and I was chilled to the bone. What a terrible scene in which to "live" one's life. Your ominous recurring motif of the sickening sweet dead "flowers" creeped me out. Nice job, FBJ!
Just finished this so I can continue on to part 2, and I really enjoyed this dark scenario. Having grown up with a British mum and lots of BBC mysteries, I was already acquainted with the foul talk.
I have spent a good deal of time in the UK, but never in this milieu, obviously. You set me down right in the middle of them and I was chilled to the bone. What a terrible scene in which to "live" one's life. Your ominous recurring motif of the sickening sweet dead "flowers" creeped me out. Nice job, FBJ!
Thank you, Sharon. Coming from you that genuinely means a lot :)
Small town life can be pretty Hobbesian anywhere, I guess. But it does have a specific accent in England.
It surely does. It is just as varied and irreverent in Scotland.