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Chris Dangerfield's avatar

Hello everyone - the version here on Substack was re-edited because I sent the story out at 06:00AM when I could barely see and it had a lot of problems, so this version is a re edit and much better.

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Difficult to pin this one down. Vividly descriptive with the usual Dangerfield eloquence and humour but run through with the sense of a child desperately trying to find something positive and reassuring in an arena which their younger self found exciting and (dare I say magical) but proves to be the opposite as each layer is explored and exposed. By the end I felt quite sad for the adult Chris hoping against hope (and reality) that there was a nugget of gold in the bath full of excrement into which he had climbed. Another quality piece of writing sir.

(And you managed not to mention Debbie McGee even once lol)

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