20 Minutes In The Park by Daniel Hurst

Author:Daniel Hurst [Hurst, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calibre
Published: 2020-04-28T22:00:00+00:00

Dominic

14:31

Dominic Saliki couldn’t help thinking about how much his life had changed in the past year. Twelve months ago, he was doing time at her Majesty’s pleasure, which was the strange English term to describe being in prison, but now he was standing in the middle of a park as a free man. But if that wasn’t surreal enough then the fact that he was halfway through a session where he was pretending to be one of the prison guards that had kept him locked away for so many years certainly was.

“Prisoner eight! Why are you wasting my time?” he shouted to the bewildered middle-aged woman in the orange T-shirt as she struggled to complete the latest round of press-ups.

“If you can’t do the time, then why did you do the crime?” he barked as the group of similarly dressed people in front of him all performed their exercises with varying degrees of success.

If only Alan could see him now.

Alan was the guard that had been in charge of the wing where he and his fellow inmates had been located in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London. Alan was a typical old school cockney geezer. He spoke in short bursts and rarely smiled. He had no time for fools which was strange because he was working in a place full of them. But he was tough and strict and somehow, he had been able to keep control of a dozen criminals that all hated him and would have most likely harmed him if they had the chance.

Dominic had been one of those in that category. He had hated Alan ever since the first time they had met when Dominic had been sentenced to four years in prison and was being processed before entering the new cell that would hold him for his duration inside. At the time, Dominic had been a cocksure twenty-two-year-old, who listened to nobody and did whatever the hell he liked. But that had all changed the moment he had met Alan. Because Alan didn’t take shit from anybody.

“On your feet prisoners, now!” Dominic bellowed to the fitness hungry people that had amazingly paid money to be talked to like this.

It was funny that there was a market for this. People actually wanted to pay to pretend to be in prison. They were giving up time and money to try and experience some of what he himself had been through for real. But of course, this was nothing like a real prison. Being shouted at by a fitness instructor pretending to be a prison guard while jumping up and down in the middle of Hyde Park before going home to their cosy homes and their fully stocked fridges was not the real prison experience.

Nobody would pay money for that.

The nights inside prison were the worst, when you were back in your cell, and the doors had been locked, and the lights turned out. That’s when you had time to think about what you had done and what you were going to do in the future.

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