Poking Seaweed With A Stick And Running Away From The Smell (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
The doctor came and said Nanny would have to have some tests, so Mum took Nanny to the specialist and when the tests were over the specialist phoned Mum and told her he needed to speak to her straightaway. I was working in my da’s fruit and vegetable shop that day like I had every day since I left school, even though I wished I had a nice job as a secretary putting on high-heeled shoes and Sheer Brazil Nut tights every day of the week. When Mum came back to the shop after speaking with the specialist she had tears in her eyes and she told us that Nanny had cancer in her pancreas, and when I heard that I sat down on the 56-pound sacks of Ayrshire potatoes we’d made up into three-pound bags that morning to sell on the weekend and I held my hands up to my face and wept into them, and just then a customer came into the shop and my da was mad, ’cause it was him who had to go and serve them, while I lay there on the potatoes in tears. The cancer in Nanny’s pancreas got worse while all the unrest was going on at home between Bruce and my da.
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