Acid Casuals
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There was also a red wig. Theresa had brought a selection. It might have come down to a choice between the fiery red or the sulky blonde. Both could look dramatic – either a demon or an angel. But Estela knew where her heart lay. She wanted a wig to replace the one the police confiscated, the Debbie Harry wig she was wearing on the night she was arrested. A pouting angel in punky drag. Certainly, an angel…
‘I saved Burgess’s life,’ she said. It was one way of looking at it. ‘It’s true, I never wanted to kill Burgess. Why should I? Everyone hated Burgess because he’s a lunatic. But they are all so nostalgic for the old days, the time when Burgess was the Speed King and they worked for him. I never hated Burgess and I didn’ want to kill him. Alter all, he did say he loved me.’
‘Junk wasn’t nostalgic for the old days. The drugs almost destroyed him. Then, we end up saving Burgess while Junk dies.’
Theresa had not got any of it right. Junk was not destroyed by the drugs, they had made him. Like a chemical version of destiny, drugs can make you into the kind of person you need to be. Junk was more than nostalgic, he was absorbed by the past. More than absorbed, he was suspended in the past like crystals dissolved in water. And according to the Manchester Evening News, he was not yet quite dead. So, there was still hope for him.
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