It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.


Journey Without Maps (ed. Random House, 2010) - ISBN: 9781407086538


It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has...

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has...

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has...

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has...