Content warning: story concerns neglect and abuse of people in long-stay learning disability institution. Amy watches the door; that grimy finger-stained gobbed-on portal to fleeting respite from the ward’s stink. The stink that makes her eyes water and saturates her soul. She tries to shift her bottom; to hold her limbs still for just long enough to hover briefly above the puddle of cold pee that has settled in a trough of rucked up rubber sheeting. No luck, she sinks back. Flails back, in truth; arms threshing, mouth grimacing and spit flying, onto the wet sandpaper of the twill draw … Continue reading Lovely girls – continued