The Conditions of Will

The Conditions of Will

Author: Jessa Hastings Listening Length: 13h 21m
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I cant remember the last time I couldnt get a handle on myself and my emotions, but the lid is slipping. Something about the slipping lid feels like its Sam Pennys fault. Like he broke the seal and hes slowly opening me up. London-based Georgia Carter, professional lie detector and body-language savant, has long been e...

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I wait in bed on Sunday morning for as long as I can, hoping that Sam will bring me up a coffee, because it would be romantic and telling if he did, but he doesn’t.

I actually wait so long that I eventually begin to worry that everyone will think I’m slovenly, so I get up and have a shower.

I don’t know why it happens, but I feel a pang of sadness as I stand under the running water at the memory of that night and my mother shoving me all heart-and-soul-mangled in here, freezing cold, to wash away the sins I didn’t commit.

The bathroom’s been redone since then… It looks different, new tiles, new fixtures… The bath, shower, and vanity are all in the same places but have been replaced, which makes it stranger, because it makes it feel like I’m remembering something from a bad dream, but I’m not. It’s a weird abstract reality I lived once upon a time, and my mind walks around this old house and I try to think of a room here where I have a happy memory.