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A Soul Caught in the Blast (extract)<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The wedding of Fred and Polly Ruggles in Birmingham, c. 1907. Polly is surrounded by Fred\u2019s family, and strikes a cheerful, almost noble poise in the photo. Given her skill at dressmaking, she probably made her own attire. This suit would have been re-used in everyday life as a smart and serviceable outfit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The screen flickers, the pictures fragmented, incomprehensible. Colours, rich and bright, flash and change before Polly\u2019s wide-open eyes. There\u2019s a jarring noise \u2013 voices, crashing, tearing. She sits frozen in her seat, hands locked to the armrests, feet jerking convulsively as her toes scrabble for ground that seems no longer to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her breath comes in sharp little pants. She cranes her neck. The cinema is packed, the seats filled with men and women, staring vacantly at the screen, their faces blank with shock or rigid with fear. Smoke curls fuggily around their heads. There\u2019s a smell of\u2014what? A sharp, bitter stench, acrid and metallic, fills her nostrils. She wants to cough but there is no air in her lungs. She wants to vomit, but her body won\u2019t obey. The diaphragm won\u2019t contract; the tripe and onions sit like lead inside her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film reel seems to be stuck. It flicks over and over \u2013wind, rain, people, water, Dorothy Lamour shouting one word over and over, her pretty face bulging out towards Polly\u2019s as if she wants to push her enormous head into the stalls. The screen seems to be ripping, and its edges billow as in a high wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polly is bewildered and terrified. She cannot understand what is happening. Where is her body? She can no longer feel her legs, her arms. She looks at her limbs. One of her legs is missing, or is it one of her arms? She can\u2019t tell anymore. Her eyes roll wildly, hunting for meaning, for memory, for escape. She can\u2019t remember anything. Wasn\u2019t she going to the movies? Some film about a girl and a chimpanzee on a desert island? No, that must be wrong. It sounds ridiculous. Where is she? What is happening?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly the lights fail. The screen tears apart and falls. There\u2019s a groan, a smash\u2014as the ceiling joists give way\u2014and Polly is wrenched into a vortex of blackness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a9 2025 Phoebee Tallis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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