Agnes and Bim :: 1
Hi, I wanted to get another chapter of "FLID" done, but I'm filming this week so I reckon there is little chance that I'm going to get time to write. So I'm going to serialise this short story instead. Its...
Agnes and Bim
January 17, 2006
January 19, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 2
4 Bim is naked in the bath. He has soap in his hair. He ducks under the water. A young 12 yr old Bim surfaces. His Dad is taking a leak. When he’s finished he turns and looks at Bim....
January 25, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 3
9 Bim is awoken from his sleep by thudding and moaning against the wall. He looks at his clock, it is 1.00 am. He looks at the ceiling. He gets up. The thudding continues. Bim dims the lights up in...
January 28, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 4
13 A little later. Bim is looking out of the window. His mother breathes. He watches a sparrow land in the long grass. He watches. His mother wakes up and looks at him. The doorbell rings. “That’ll be the Doc,”...
January 31, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 5
17 Very loud Country and Western music is suddenly heard through the walls, knocking Bim back into the present. He scowls. Bim wheels himself down his own path and then wheels himself down the path of his neighbour. He rings...
February 6, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 6
21 Agnes is barely awake. Bim looks at her. “You alright, Mum? Took a bit longer today, Mum. Sorry. Don’t think Georgie was that pleased. Funny ain’t it, when someone says “take ya time” that ain’t what they means, is...
February 9, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 7
27 A little later, the storm has cleared. The kettle is boiling. The doorbell rings. Bim opens the door. A man is standing there with a bunch of flowers. He’s in his late forties, a little weathered. “I’m Frank," he...
February 17, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 8
29 Bim is lying on the bed next to Agnes. She is barely with him. “I wish mi dad was ere,” he says, “yeah I do, bin wishing for im plenty of recent, like. I don’t know why? He’d be...
February 25, 2006
Agnes and Bim :: 9
Here is the final installment of Agnes and Jim. I've been away re-opening my adaptation of Moll Flanders, which is why I have not written for a week. Rehearsals were great and our opening week at the Winchester Theatre Royal...