one twisted voice by One Twisted Voice (epub)

Author:One Twisted Voice (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Author’s note:

This story first appeared in the eBook collection “Off The Record 2: At the Movies” (Guilty Conscience)

APOCALYSPE NOO

Getting away from it all was an idea that Josh Linaker subscribed to. Now in his mid-thirties, the haunts of Ibiza and Benidorm and the other party spots he’d once graced had lost their appeal. In fact, some of the lads from work had asked him to go on a booze cruise with them around the Balearics: to him that sounded as appealing as having a six inch nail hammered through his nut sack. No, he’d done the drinking and wenching thing, the staying up all night, and sleeping through the hottest hours of the day, and he was sick to the back teeth of it. He’d been working hard, sometimes fourteen hours a day, and all he wanted now was rest.

When he was a kid, his dad used to take him fly fishing on the Tyne, out Hexham way, not on the muddy flats that ran through the Toon. He recalled hazy, lazy days on the riverbank, a sense of peace and tranquillity invading his usually overactive child’s mind. Going fishing sounded like a great plan. He always remembered his dad extolling the virtues of the rivers and lochs of Scotland, and when he was younger, they had planned on taking a trip and hiring a cottage somewhere, and wasting a full week or two dangling their rods in the water. Josh had sniggered at the innuendo, and laughed hard when dad didn’t get the joke. Of course, those plans never bore fruition. Josh grew up, became a man with his own ideas of a good time, and took his holidays with the other piss-heads from ‘the job’. He wished now that he’d taken up his dad’s offer. Unfortunately, his dad was dead and gone, almost ten years to the day.

This was a trip of reconciliation. Things had grown fractious with his dad towards the end. His dad didn’t approve of his career choice, couldn’t understand why his lad had chosen to join the coppers, an enemy he’d fought tooth and nail when Maggie closed the pits. Dad didn’t understand that the police service was different than during the miner’s riots, that PACE had changed everything and these day’s coppers were decent blokes. Dad couldn’t get past the “bad old times”, though, and had never fully recovered from the beating he’d taken in the back of a Black Maria. The fact that dad had been snatched while kicking the shit out of some poor bloke who had chosen to feed his kids instead of the Unions was beside the point. When he first saw Josh in his uniform, his son could tell that his dad was thinking only of the ruptured spleen and broken hip that had made him an invalid. They had turned away from each other and didn’t speak again. Josh regretted it now, wished that he’d gone to his dad’s funeral, made his peace. That’s all he wanted now: peace.

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