The Huts
By celticman
Mental Health Hospital c1965-75.
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Huts76
casual sex. Only for the young.
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Huts84
The very last huts. boo-hoo
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huts (rewrite) part 3
Wullie the Pole wheels a trolley into the space between the doors of the kitchen and dining hall. The tables are set out for breakfast, but the hatch...
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huts 2 (rewrite)
'I'm looking for Ailsa ward.' I speak too quickly, trying to sound as confident as him, almost stuttering. But if I stuttered I would have died. The...
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huts 1 (rewrite)
The security guard with a pencil moustache, slides open the window of the lodge at the hospital gates and addresses me as ‘sir’. I’m given directions...
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huts 4 (rewrite)
Heebie-jeebies, I can’t sit still to read through the file on Norean Kileen. Try not to be too obvious. I spy on her as she waltzes down the corridor...
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huts 5 (rewrite)
The office is too warm. I sit squelched and sweating under the pall of Wullie the Poles’s Senoir Service , nose buried in files, eyes shifting...
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huts second week (first draft)
Monday is Monday in anybody’s language. Black and wet outside and our miserable Monday weather seeps inside and ages me. I hunker down, bury hands...
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huts second week, second day (first draft)
Our first formal class, critical theory in mental handicap nursing, takes place in the defunct maternity ward, in the old hospital. High ceilings,...
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Huts IX
I poke and pick and ease my tongue into a hole where a tooth should be, but that doesn’t stop me smiling when the day shift lets go of me. I take the...
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Huts Xish
After work my luck doesn’t change. On my way home I slide on a wet standing stones in the burn, and batter my knee off a submerged rock. I juggle...
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