THE LITERARY WORLD OF THOMAS DADE
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    • The Shoot
    • Glassy-eyed bitch!
    • What Emma Said
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    • Summer Days
    • My Dear Old Mum
    • Night of the Predator
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    • Christmas Values
    • Remembrance Day
    • The Hills of Home
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  • Humorous
    • The Job Centre Blues
    • The Patron Saint of Solicitors
    • Sad Tale of the Kimble Frish
    • The Greatest Show On Earth
    • Farmyard Friends
    • Cookin' Up The Amazon
    • The Undertaker's Anthem
    • Pink, Punk, Fizz!
    • The Tradesman
    • When Adolf came o’er t' Yorkshire - (Dialect)
  • Short Stories
    • A Life, Retrospective
    • Room 126
    • A Bizarre Love Story
    • An Evening With Bonnie
    • Joyce's Story
    • Different Perspectives - Care Homes
  • Dilemmas
  • Contact
  • Granny D - Agony Aunt
    • Steroids in Sport – A Vicious Cycle
    • Autagonistophilia – Emma, Bruce and Demi too!
    • Legal Advice for Oscar Pistorius
    • Drug Abuse - Anyone for Charlie?
    • Hybristophilia
    • Chris Huhne from HMP Wandsworth
    • POPE Thanks Granny D
    • Necrophilia - Fifty Shades of Grey
    • Voyeurism
    • Alcohol Abuse - Binge Drinking
    • Striae - Stretch Marks
    • Autassassinophilia
    • Richard Madeley On Skype
    • Savile, Glitter & Starr?
    • Homosexuality
    • Phobias
    • Impotence - Erectile Dysfunction
    • Testicular Cancer
    • Cross-dressing – Does size matter?
    • Letter to Auntie Kath
    • Granny D's WaterAid Appeal
    • Swingers and Swappers
    • Letter from Her Majesty
    • Neophobia
    • Telephone Scatologia
    • FGM
    • Ataxophobia
  • Restaurant Reviews
    • Generous Pioneer, Ilkley
    • Fazenda, Leeds
    • Amici Ristorante, Keighley
    • Balti House, Keighley
    • The Toby Carvery, Keighley
    • Banny's Fish & Chip Restaurant, Colne
    • Kingfisher Restaurant, Cross Hills
    • Ivy Palace Cantonese, Colne
    • Mother Hubbards, Scarborough
    • Princess Cafe, Scarborough
    • Welcome Inne, Scarborough
    • Leeds Fisheries, Scarborough
  • Feature Length Screenplays
    • You're Not Singing, Eddie Moore - Psychological Thriller
    • the summer of alex white - Romantic Comedy
    • The Grey Room - Psychological Thriller
    • That's Show Business! Comedy
    • The Eartly World of Francis Wick - Comedy
    • On The Slyde - Comedy
  • Six-part Screenplays
    • You're Not Singing, Eddie Moore - Comedy
    • Mardy & Son - Dark Comedy
    • STARS - Comedy
    • Amazing Grace - Comedy
  • Radio Scripts
    • Belvedere Trent - The Circles of Suburbia - Comedy
  • Credits
    • Good for the gander
Picture

Mad House

Imagine a hollow tomato seed filled with the day’s light.
Not possible?
How about a woman locking herself in a cupboard for ten days
just to see what death would be like?

The truth is…


When the lights go out at nine o’clock, Robby bangs his skull against the wall. 
Bang!  Bang!  Bang!  On and on as the clock sheds the sound of used seconds.

The truth is…


When he was six, his father smashed his mother’s brains out whilst Robby listened from
the next room. He says he remembers being led out of the house by the Police and looking
inside the room as he passed. He descibed the wallpaper as having lots of little pink and
yellow flowers all over it; the next thing he recalls, his mother lay in a field of poppies.
Death can be so artistic, don’t you think?

The truth is…


See fat Colin over there?  Bald.  Scarred scalp.  Eyes like gob-stoppers. Those scars
denote the four corners of his mind; logic; perception; compassion; the subconscious.
Watch him with his mug of steaming hot tea.  He doesn’t see what you or I see.

The truth is…


He sees the spirits of snakes mysteriously writhe
towards inward breathing. 
As each one disappears, a new one is born.  He wants to drink them quickly
before they escape, before they become something that Colin will never be... free.

The truth is…

During the hours of darkness, if you listen carefully, I mean really carefully,
you can hear him whisper to the children; always the dead ones, never the
ones that got away. Just like the snakes, maybe one day they'll kill each other
inside his brain... or my brain… or…

The truth is…


...even your brain.  It can happen, believe me.  This place can make people do
really bad things, even if you later regret it.  Remember I told you about that
woman locking herself in the cupboard for ten days…

The truth is…
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