The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 185 It Hurts to Laugh and Hurts to Cry Three

Pick up the crazy pen and walk – isn’t that what they teach you at hospital school?

I’ve used it as an excuse a few times before now

Why dont you write me?

There was the blood episode.

I was allowed some thin gruel to drink and I was leaning over supping it.

When I looked down there was blood all over the bed – this bright red guilty presence on the stark wh…