Shreds of Gorak: 41-50

Memoir, anecdote and meaningful other: Shreds 41-50 Going for Gold: A yearning for approval from my mother finds me excelling with Olympian-like focus on school sports day. I Wanna be Sedated: Surrendering our mental faculties is never talked about as a viable life-style choice - if only there was somewhere to do this safely, where we could pursue our chosen reality… Tech Support: A tech-support man arrives, and I suspect he is not human. Crossroads: At an impressionable age I fall in with the wrong crowd and find myself faced with a moral dilemma. ADVERTISEMENT - Vaccine: A fictitious advert for a board game. Wedding Photography Pt2 – The Shootout: The day of the big shoot arrives and it becomes clear that I am not cut out for wedding photography. Hanging Out: A snapshot of a traumatic event. This Ol' House: A fabricated story about integrity and the commodification of music, based around the idea of Shakin' Stevens as an icon of authenticity. Fray Bentos: Days before Christmas, I despair of people, but later witness an act of goodwill, restoring my faith. A Christmas Glory: Fuelled by sexual energy, I question the concept of good and evil through graphic and depraved fantasies involving the Queen. Static: After a traumatic relationship break-up, I start over from a static caravan in the wilds of Cumbria, choosing to seize it as an opportunity for growth.