Don’s archive also contains an unfinished version of BB The Play. I’m including the story because it is complete.
Damian
Don originally wrote this piece as a treatment for a play, starting as prose and deteriorating into bullet points at the bottom. I think it works well as a short story, so I have made a few edits to bring it more completely into that form. I have included the beginnings of the play at the bottom —…
There comes a time when you look at your father and think — once I was terrified of you — now you are just a lonely, frightened old man.
© Supple Minds, 2019
Early life was sheltered for Bob.
We should have married, but life is full of should haves.
I was twenty — just starting to go to dances and mix (boys started late in the nineteen fifties, despite rock-and-roll). I was an aspiring, young (unqualified) accountant, going to university part time and wanting to meet more…