Fuck, it's hot, Walker thinks as he walks along looking for Mellors. The gamekeeper had said that he was repairing some of the pheasant release pens in the depths of wood, well beyond their bathing pool. Walker stops, listening to a sound that sounds like tuneless humming as he wipes sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. That's him, he ( Read more... )

Bein' cripplingly shy, I reckon. When I was at school, it was kinda painful for me to speak to other kids an' when I got really nervous - which happened a lot - I had this little twitch in my eye, you know? I remember that first day at school an' it was lunchtime and us new kids were all told where to sit. One of the older kids was in charge of our ( Read more... )

Hell, that's real easy. It'd be the moment when I told the gamekeeper I wanted to stay. I remember him lookin' at me an' he said, "the choice is yours to make, Blouseman. Choose which world you want to belong to, but know that there is no guarantee that the way between those two world will remain open once the choice is made ( Read more... )

Back in the other place I learned to trust few people - my pal Joe an' a couple of other guys. I've been hurt more times than I care to think of 'cause I've trusted folk only for them to shit on me. An' it don't matter how much I want to, I haven't got it in me to hurt 'em back. I was gettin' to a time when I thought that I'd never be able to give ( Read more... )

See, I'm kinda irresponsible anyhow, though I'm workin' on that an' tryin' to do better - an' the gamekeeper's helpin' me. I don't always think of the consequences when I do things - I just kinda dive plunge right in an' worry about what might happen later. An' that's okay if its only me I gotta worry about, but now it ain't just me. Now, doin' ( Read more... )

What's the scariest thing that has ever happened to me? I know I've never been as frightened as I was the day I was tryin' to get back into the woods and I couldn't get there. And then when I finally did get there, I found the gamekeeper had been shot. I blamed myself 'cause I'd been with Clay - an' I reckoned it was the woods way of punishin' me. ( Read more... )

He's beautiful. He sneers when I tell him that, denies it - but its true ( Read more... )

Walker wonders for the umpteenth time why these questions keep appearing in his head. "Hell, that's easy. It means everythin' - it means my life here in the woods with the gamekeeper. It means bein' protective an' feelin' protected, it means feelin' warm and wantin' to warm in return. It means bein' together and sharin' everythin' - our hopes an' ( Read more... )

What's the furthest away you've ever been from the place you were born/created? How did you get there? Why did you go? Did you return or even want to come back to where you came from?
Right where I am now. I'd bummed around quite a lot in the US, travellin' a long way from my home town, but nothin' as far as this. Cause now I'm standin' in front of ( Read more... )

Hell - that's real easy. Clean white sheets on the bed, a large tub of chocolate icecream an' the gamekeeper. An' then a nice warm bath afterwards...