Ironopolis by Glen James Brown

Author:Glen James Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Parthian Books
Published: 2018-06-12T08:02:15+00:00

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Douglas Ward of Campbell Road

N.B. – The following is comprised of transcribed conversations conducted with several residents – or former residents – of the Burn Estate, in connection with the infamous 1993 New Year’s Eve explosion. Interspersing these testimonies are the journals of one Douglas Ward, the man who, on that very same night, came into my home armed with a kitchen knife, and spilled my mother’s ashes all over the rug.

This document exists because I believed Douglas to be the thread which would guide me not out of, but into the labyrinth of my family’s history, a history superimposed like acetate over the world I see each day outside my window. I have sensed this labyrinth my whole life, but have always lacked the opportunity courage to enter, because I know that deep in the dark of it, someone – something – awaits me.

I should acknowledge that the following does not encompass the entirety of my investigations. Rather, I have selected and arranged portions in order to attempt a narrative. My reasons for this, I hope, will become self-evident; yet this is not to say that I have in any way manipulated or supressed anything within the portions themselves. In my chest does not beat the grey heart of the censor. On the contrary, I have remained verbatim throughout, even when it has hurt to do so.

Alan Barr

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