Quarshie stood frontstage, his eyes full of menace. They said, “What the fuck are you doing here?”
Quarshie was Mark Antony. Caesar’s body lay at his side. He’d just ordered the mob to avenge his mentor’s murder, the mob had shuffled off in compliance, but now some scruffy stray was back already, trying to act, trying to look like he gave a toss about Casear. A woman in the audience burst out laughing.
Soon the mob returned, swallowed their lost member back into the fold and Quarshie’s body language softened. The name of the woman in the audience was Angelina.
I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love Studios. I write about my daily activities and encounters. In 1988, I married Jane. We are still together today, sharing our lives and making each other laugh.
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