The Days That Don't Disappear
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Garry Crystal
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The Days That Don’t Disappear is a true short story set during the 1970s in a Scottish, Catholic primary school. This is the first-hand tale of four years of violent bullying towards children, not bullying at school from other children, but from teachers who were in a position of trust. An honest account of a less than idyllic childhood and a story of growing and up coming of age.
Excerpts “She was in her mid-forties. Tall, maybe six foot, or maybe she just seemed taller to me back then. She had a mass of curly black and grey hair along with the most sunken-in, dark-ringed eyes I had ever seen. It was the same pattern as before. Belt every day, hair pulling and screaming fits, and the day she slammed my head into the desk, that was it, that was enough, that was the day my inexplicable illness began.”
“Day after day, month after month, continual fear, wondering which way she was going to blow next and what little thing would kick off her volatile temper. I was given the belt nearly every other day for something or other, and I simply came to expect it. Get a question wrong or miss church on Sunday with the rest of the class and her best friend would be out of the drawer. That piece of brown leather, half an inch thick, two inches wide and a foot long. She would raise it high above her head then bring it down sharply over your outstretched palm.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Review of Garry Crystal's short story collection All of Us With Our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas
"Garry Crystal's title, All of Us with our Pointless Worries and Inconsequential Dramas, for his collection of short stories and one scene plays aptly summarizes a dominant theme at the same time that it seems to dismiss the content as near meaningless. Most of these narratives depict the all too common scene for 30's something men and women in the big city, whether Paris, London, or New York: struggles at recovery from ruined relationships, lapses into sloth, alcohol, drugs, casual, sometimes barely civil, sexual encounters and ,of course, depression that blankets these scenes of urban discontent like a gray, palpable fog. For all this, I could not dismiss as dreary cliche' this highly entertaining and thought provoking collection. It was fun to read and at some points, downright intriguing. "A dark humor and a conversational first person narrator style preserve the several stories of an alienated young urban male from triteness. There are situations that, if our jaded narrator did not so masterfully depict them, might be all too familiar for interest.
"This collection has much to offer to readers from a broad band of tastes who enjoy good story telling. For readers prone to induced anxiety and depressed moods these stories could pose a hazard. Those who enjoy nuanced meaning and dark ambiguities delivered by way of succinct narration and lively dialogue, these stories are the right stuff." – The Online Book Club
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