Virtual Strangers by Sam Canning

Author:Sam Canning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zaffre Publishing

We made our way to the room we’d been directed to. I had to admit, I was pretty excited now. I’d really enjoyed pottery when I was younger. There’d always been something about it that I found soothing, and maybe even a bit sexy. The feel of the wet clay and the mess it made . . . in hindsight, I’d perhaps seen Ghost at too formative an age.

We made our way into the room and an astonishingly beautiful middle-aged woman greeted us, introducing herself as Thea. She was tall with wild curly hair and cheekbones you could slice bread with. Her dark purple skirt billowed out behind her as she beckoned us in. The strings of brightly coloured beads around her neck clacked about like castanets as she walked.

‘A pleasure to meet you both,’ she said, briefly checking a sheet she had in her hand. ‘You must be Fraser,’ she nodded to him, ‘and you must be Ada?’

We both agreed that yes, we were.

‘Excellent, if you could take your seats in your spot over there.’ She pointed to a pottery wheel in the corner.

Wait. Just the one? I gave Fraser a querying glance and he shrugged. All right, then.

We made our way to the corner as Thea briefly pointed out the other people in the class. Everyone was in groups of two people to one wheel so at least it wasn’t because we were the last in.

We smiled and nodded at the women nearest us, picking up the aprons that had been set on our chairs. Out of the corner of my eye I could see Fraser trying to inspect his before sliding it carefully over his head and tried not to openly snigger. Sitting down, I wondered how on earth this was going to work. There was very definitely only one wheel and one lump of clay on the wheel. Were we going to take it in turns? It made sense, I supposed. It must be fairly expensive equipment and it’d take an age to set up each week if you had loads.

‘Hello, everyone.’

I cast my eyes back onto Thea, who was now standing at the front of the room.

‘Thank you all for coming. It’s a pleasure to see some new faces and to meet with old friends again.’ She beamed at us. What a nice woman. ‘Tonight is the beginning of our summer term but it is also part of a series of standalone sessions. So for the new ones amongst us,’ she gestured to me and Fraser and a man and woman closer to the front, ‘I’ll come around to each of you and we’ll take a few minutes to go through the basics of how to use the wheel and shape the clay and talk through your intentions for your work tonight. Those of you who have been here before are welcome to get started but if you have any questions, do please raise your hand and I’ll come to you. Does anyone have any questions before we begin?’

I did not and nor did anyone else it seemed.

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