Sample Sunday – Broken Promises.
Sam went with him willingly, but once he had her he wouldn’t let her go. Abused for years, Sam has to find a way to escape his clutches.
My name was Sam Brewer and I was thirty-one when I discovered I had never been who I thought I was. Now I have no idea who I am supposed to be.
I left my kids. I walked away from my life. I left it all behind for him. Why? Honestly? I have no idea. Maybe this will help you, and me, to understand.
It doesn’t matter any more. An end is coming. I can’t stop it, the damage was too great, the pain too large. You asked me what happened, but I couldn’t tell you. Then when I was ready to speak it was too late.
The Portals are sealed now and there’s no way I can find of getting back to you. I broke it all, again, and I’m sorry.
I sit here at my desk and I write longhand by the flickering light of an oil lamp. I have freshly-cut quills and reed pens and ink made especially for me. But it wasn’t made for this. It was made to indulge me. I like to write things down where the ink makers like to recall their history aurally. There is no electricity here and no computers. My life is simple in its complexity and I can’t trust that this peace will last. It’s all gone so horribly wrong. I don’t know how to make it right.
Shall we start at the beginning then? It does really depend on where you decide it started I suppose. Does it start with my birth? I suppose it could, but then it would be a very long and very boring tale to tell and to listen to, or read. It could start the day Kate walked into my class at school, maybe the day I had sex for the first time, the day I gave birth. It could start at any point in my life. But it is really a culmination of all those and other times and places which made me who I am today. They all focused, all came together one dark autumn night a couple of years ago.
I’d told you I was going to see my parents. Of course I meant my adoptive parents. It was late October. The leaves were golden, red and orange as they tumbled from the trees into drifts on the pavements and blew all over the town centre. It was a day or two before Hallowe’en, Samhain, that night of changes. It was cold, wet and dark.
I had planned to spend a day or two with my parents. I had wanted to ask them so much. I’d only just found out about being abandoned as a baby. In thirty-one years they had never mentioned anything about my being adopted.
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