The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 85 Clowns and Angels

As a small child I was terrified of just about everything – balloons, clowns, dogs. the postie and especially the little red haired kid up the street in his go-cart.

We lived in an old rented house on Nixon Street in Hamilton East up until I was the age of five. The walls were decorated with stuffed and mounted deer heads and my earliest memories are of …