Out of Flashback, noir scene, muted details, sexy and mysteriousStain and Alice are naked - pillow talkWhat was it like for you growing up?”Narration Our relationship was helping me to confront my inner demons.I’ll give you the drum. But I warn you in advance, it’s a ride and a half.”
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Happy Birthday
come out!
Silhouetted man walking away from a murder scene sinister, dark, unsettling, distortedHe got into a fight with his boss, chopped the bloke’s head open with a meat clever and hung him up on a meat hook out the back. Someone found him later that day, not dead but close to it.
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sinister, dark, unsettling, distortedI kind of remember my dad coming home with blood all over him, saying it was from work
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sinister, dark, unsettling, distortedAnyhow, I remember all this because it was my fifth birthday. It was night time, and I was just blowing out the candles on my cake when we heard a voice on a loud hailer calling for dad to come outside with his hands up.
Hand reaching in the cupboardDad jumped up from the table, mad as a cut snake, grabbed a couple of shotguns out of the pantry
and handed one to mum.
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She belted me to the floor
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Night time, shooters are crazed, mother is getting kicks and the dad is eviland then went to the windows and started shooting.
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Fear, isolation, aloneIt went on for a while. I remember being on the floor with my fingers in my ears, blue flashing lights filling the room, glass spraying everywhere from gunfire. Eventually they ran out of ammo, I guess, and had to give themselves up.
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Eventually they ran out of ammo, I guess, and had to give themselves up.“A policewoman held me, kindly enough I suppose, while I watched my folks bundled into a police van. My mum waved at me from the window. I never saw either of ’em again.”
Out of Flashback, noir scene, muted details, sexy and mysteriousStain and Alice are naked - pillow talk“You must have been heartbroken,” Stain said, quietly wiping away a tear;“Nar, they’d raised me to think it was inevitable,” said Alice, quietly.
Old Orphanage, not appealing, probably a bit run down, with some obvious religious aspects to itAnyhow, I was put into Clontarf Boys Town Orphanage. It was run by brothers — monks, that is.
Clontarf BoysTown Orphanage
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Boys beating up Young Alice, kicking him while he's in the floorI wasn’t even a Catholic. Maybe that’s why I got so much abuse. It’s definitely why I hate organized religion.
Teen Alice dressedpunkrock,musclynow (but not as big as today), looking mysterious smoking acigaretteI was only a little fella when I went in, but by the time I reached puberty I was a seriously tough nut, with a dirty big chip on my shoulder and a take-no-prisoners attitude.