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    The Wall of Retribution
    The Wall of Retribution
    The Wall of Retribution
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    The Wall of Retribution

    By Tom Goymour

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    When the layers are stripped back, our darkest secrets surface; they cannot be papered over permanently.

    When mum asked me to repaper the front room wall, I never expected it to lead to a blast from the past. I met up with an old mate who could help me out, some things never change. But what I never saw coming was what was to happen next. How could I have done? And, will I live to tell the tale? 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Goymour
    Release dateSep 11, 2017
    ISBN9781386553762
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      Book preview

      The Wall of Retribution - Tom Goymour

      The Wall

      of

      Retribution

      ––––––––

      By

      TOM GOYMOUR

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      Published 2017

      © Tom Goymour 2017

      The right of Tom Goymour to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical  copying, recording or otherwise without prior permission from the Publishers.

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      When the layers are stripped back, our darkest secrets surface;

      they cannot be papered over permanently

      * * * * *

      The Wall of Retribution

      Life doesn’t always go to plan. We all know that to be true. Sometimes things change when we are least expecting it. Change can be the very best and the worst thing – it was so for me, but I never thought, and couldn’t possibly have dreamed how it would come about. It was one day back in the mid-nineteen seventies that changed everything for me, and I’m going to tell you how, but this isn’t going to be a comfortable ride. To be honest, right now, I don’t really know where I’ve ended up, it certainly all seems a bit weird.

      It’s late in the year, and mum is really pushing her luck; she wants the front room wallpapered – in time for Christmas, yet it’s weeks away! I mean, who else would be piling on the pressure to get the job done right away? Only mum. All the same, I guess I’ll just cave in and say ‘Yes’, like I always do. I act like her servant every time. Dad is hopeless at this sort of stuff, he never was any good at practical tasks, and anyway, he’s far too old now. At twenty years her senior, I sometimes wonder how they ever got together. The thing is, I do have the time to do it and I’m handy enough with all that pasting and hanging stuff, but it sucks . . . I mean, come on . . . what other thirty-two-year-old living at home with his parents is tied down the way I am? Mum is in a wheelchair now – has been for five years. If you ask me she’s always been an invalid,

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