It’s March 1941 and the town of Clydebank is facing one of it’s
greatest ever devastations – intensive Luftwaffe bombing resulting in the
deaths of hundreds. Hazel is hoping that her family and friends – and her
secret girlfriend, Mary, and her family – can all make it through the night
alive but, with no warning or time to prepare before the raid, this doesn’t
seem likely.
2. Until Death Do Us Part
Literary Taxidermy is a form of creative writing in which you take the first and last lines from another work and stuff it with your own story. This work takes the first and last lines from "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker. The first line is "Please, God, let him telephone me now.", the last line is "Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five." and the rest is all original work by Alex Compton, written to fit in with these two lines and as an entry for the Literary Taxidermy Short Story Competition in 2018.
The inspiration for this story came from the text ‘Bullet in the Brain’ by Tobias Wolff. It made me consider how someone can die without any warning, without a second chance or time to say goodbye. It also made me think about everything that they leave behind, and the life that they could have led. I wanted to incorporate the idea of the window symbolising a person’s view on life, and how this view can be influenced and change.
This Christmas short follows a young girl as she waits for her Dad to return home from the war in time for Christmas.
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