A Rucksack Full of Rocks. Brand new from the Untold Stories series.
Simon on A Rucksack Full of Rocks. "This story is a work of fiction as are the characters featured, but somewhere along the way, somewhere on my journey I have come across very similar events, so it is fair to say that A Rucksack Full of Rocks must be, at some point, a dramatisation. Either way, it contains upsetting scenes, but one I hope some people learn from."
The kid, well, a teenager now, so neither man nor boy, but either way, the kid sits on his bed and reads. He can sense it even before he hears it. His ears fill with the sound of his name being shouted up the stairs, from the voice down those very same stairs. It is like hearing a troll under the bridge.
He puts his book down, stands up and groans at it all, groans at the inevitability of what is about to happen. It is a shame that he doesn’t see that once this is all over, it will all be different. If he did see it, he would smile a bit more. He doesn’t see himself at twenty years of age, swinging a bat against a ball, dropping that bat and making the run that makes the people cheer. He will do though, he will see it, just not yet.
He makes his way down the stairs, the threadbare carpet picking at his feet as he becomes aware of the figure waiting for him. A man cast in a suit for credibility and respect, yet his actions will always prove otherwise and so the kid shrugs his shoulders. It is what it is.
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