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Monday, 26 June 2023

'Situation Vacant – Still' by Rachel Burrows

She lies in the dark, reliving the whole sorry interview, trying to block out when she had s…
shit – she had said,  ‘A seag..’
Oh Lord, so ‘she could steal people’s sandwiche…’
Surely she …, how could she have been so clum…
see – she knew she shouldn’t  have applied for the stupid…
…post-traumatic stress now, thinking about when they asked about her reasons for wanting part-time and she said so she could walk the …
don’t go there, don’t go there, don’t go…
there’s a flashback to her saying she was most proud of the way she could balance a …
why hadn’t she mentioned Times Ed prize for …
disaster, disaster, dis..
after all that work and effort on the application…
for months, for nothing, for absolutely no…
thing is, they put her off with the, ‘we aren’t quite ready for you, there’s been a problem, we don’t seem to have your…’
details they didn’t need, yabber, yabber, always talking without think…
in the morning it will feel better won’t …
it was ex-crut-iat-ing and even the radio being on, and all the voices can’t stop her thinking about the answer to the question the students panel asked, and she can’t block it out because it’s right there frozen infront of her screwed up eye…
‘I would like to be a seagull, because
I like looking down on peop..’
Almighty God in Heaven – that’s what she answered, to that question, in front of the headteacher about what animal she would most like to …
B – o-l-l o-c- 

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