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Daisy Hill Return

from Dead in Chellow Dean by Andrew DR Abbott

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Chapter Two
Return to Daisy Hill

Now he wandered through a housing estate made of five and six bedroom houses in various states of disrepair. Expensive cars with personalised registration plates filled the driveways and pavements. A skip spilled its contents across the street: broken glass, splintered wood and shredded paper documents like confetti. The smell of heavily spiced food hit him in waves. His stomach churned.

A hand-painted sign warned DO NOT BLOCK DRIVE. He was approached by a fierce looking dog with a tennis ball in its mouth, but its owner - a dark-skinned man speaking frantically in a foreign language down a mobile phone - called him off. He followed the dog down an overgrown ginnel. A suitcase of clothes, stuffed toys and maths homework had been emptied everywhere.

He exited onto a main road where three men fed branches of a felled tree into a screaming woodchipper. A woman … prostitute?… extravagantly dressed, walked on the other side of the road. A group of people in pale blue uniform with red ribbon lanyards sat around a bus-stop smoking and venting grievances. He recognized their weariness.

He saw the sign for Daisy Hill Lane. It was the site of his old school: Temple Bank. He recognized a pub nearby that was now a car park for the hospital. The old recreation ground was still there. His grandma had lived a little further down the hill in an old quarry worker’s cottage. He spent the afternoons after school at her house before being collected by his parents.

He walked up the road. From the Hill Top, you could see all across Bradford. On a good day you could see the old mills on the other side of the valley. Once, he’d watched one burning like a candle into the night.
How many are left now?

A convoy of quad bikes ridden by masked youths flew up the hill and roared past him. Shaken, he turned off down a path towards Sunny Brow.

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from Dead in Chellow Dean, released October 4, 2019

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Andrew DR Abbott Halifax, UK

Andy Abbott is an artist, musician and writer who lives in West Yorkshire, UK.
His recent output as ‘Andrew DR Abbott’ centres on instrumental compositions for 8-string baritone acoustic guitar. 'ADRA' is the name under which he releases improvised or more experimental work. ... more

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