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Authors: David Peace
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girl in white turning black right down to her nails and the holes in her head, just a girl, hearing footsteps on the cobbles outside .
Just a girl .
I woke panting, burning, sure theyd be waiting.
They smiled and took my hands and feet.
I closed my eyes and let them rip me right back into that room, the same room, always the same room
Different times, different places, different towns, different houses, always the same room.
Always that same bloody room.
The body is lying naked in the middle of the bed, the shoulders flat, the axis of the body inclined to the left side of the bed. The left arm is close to the body with the forearm flexed at a right angle, lying across the abdomen. The right arm is slightly abducted from the body and resting on the mattress, the elbow bent and the forearm supine with fingers clenched. The legs are wide apart, the left thigh at right angles to the trunk, the right forming an obtuse angle with the pubes .
The whole of the surface of the abdomen and thighs has been removed and the abdominal cavity emptied of its viscera. The breasts cut off, the arms mutilated by several jagged wounds and the face hacked beyond recognition of the features. The tissues of the neck have been severed all round, down to the bone .
The viscera are in various parts viz: the uterus and kidneys with one breast under the bed, the other breast by the right foot, the liver between the feet, the intestines by the right side, and the spleen by the left side of the body. The flaps removed from the abdomen and thighs are on the table .
The bed clothing at the right side is saturated with blood and on the floor beneath is a pool of blood covering about two feet square. The wall by the right side of the bed and in line with the neck is marked by blood which has struck it in a number of separate splashes .
The face has been gashed in all directions, the nose, the cheeks, eyebrows and ears being partly removed. The lips have been blanched and cut by several incisions running obliquely down to the chin. There are also numerous cuts extending irregularly across all the features .
The neck has been cut through the skin and other tissues right down to the vertebrae, the fifth and sixth being deeply notched. The skin cuts in the front of the neck show distinct eccymosis .
The air passage has been cut at the lower part of the larynx through the cricoid cartilage .
Both breasts have been removed by more or less circular incisions, the muscles down to the ribs being attached to the breasts. The intercostals between the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs have been cut through and the contents of the thorax are visible through the openings .
The skin and tissues of the abdomen from the costal arch to the pubes have been removed in three large flaps. The right thigh is denuded in front to the bone, the flap of skin, including the external organs of generation and part of the right buttock. The left thigh has been stripped of skin, fascia, and muscles as far as the knee .
The left calf shows a long gash through skin and tissues to the deep muscles, reaching from the knee to five inches above the ankle .
Both arms and forearms have extensive and jagged wounds .
The right thumb shows a small superficial incision about one inch long, with extravasation of blood in the skin and there are several abrasions on the back of the hand showing the same condition .
On opening the thorax it appears that the right lung is minimally adherent by old firm adhesions. The lower part of the lung is broken and torn away .
The left lung is intact: adherent at the apex and there are a few adhesions over the side. In the substance of the lung are several nodules of consolidation .
The pericardium is open below .
In the abdominal cavity is some partly digested food and fish and potatoes and similar food was found in the remains of the stomach attached to the intestines .
Spitalfields, 1888 .
The heart is absent and the door locked from the inside .
I woke to find them
Just a girl .
I woke panting, burning, sure theyd be waiting.
They smiled and took my hands and feet.
I closed my eyes and let them rip me right back into that room, the same room, always the same room
Different times, different places, different towns, different houses, always the same room.
Always that same bloody room.
The body is lying naked in the middle of the bed, the shoulders flat, the axis of the body inclined to the left side of the bed. The left arm is close to the body with the forearm flexed at a right angle, lying across the abdomen. The right arm is slightly abducted from the body and resting on the mattress, the elbow bent and the forearm supine with fingers clenched. The legs are wide apart, the left thigh at right angles to the trunk, the right forming an obtuse angle with the pubes .
The whole of the surface of the abdomen and thighs has been removed and the abdominal cavity emptied of its viscera. The breasts cut off, the arms mutilated by several jagged wounds and the face hacked beyond recognition of the features. The tissues of the neck have been severed all round, down to the bone .
The viscera are in various parts viz: the uterus and kidneys with one breast under the bed, the other breast by the right foot, the liver between the feet, the intestines by the right side, and the spleen by the left side of the body. The flaps removed from the abdomen and thighs are on the table .
The bed clothing at the right side is saturated with blood and on the floor beneath is a pool of blood covering about two feet square. The wall by the right side of the bed and in line with the neck is marked by blood which has struck it in a number of separate splashes .
The face has been gashed in all directions, the nose, the cheeks, eyebrows and ears being partly removed. The lips have been blanched and cut by several incisions running obliquely down to the chin. There are also numerous cuts extending irregularly across all the features .
The neck has been cut through the skin and other tissues right down to the vertebrae, the fifth and sixth being deeply notched. The skin cuts in the front of the neck show distinct eccymosis .
The air passage has been cut at the lower part of the larynx through the cricoid cartilage .
Both breasts have been removed by more or less circular incisions, the muscles down to the ribs being attached to the breasts. The intercostals between the fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs have been cut through and the contents of the thorax are visible through the openings .
The skin and tissues of the abdomen from the costal arch to the pubes have been removed in three large flaps. The right thigh is denuded in front to the bone, the flap of skin, including the external organs of generation and part of the right buttock. The left thigh has been stripped of skin, fascia, and muscles as far as the knee .
The left calf shows a long gash through skin and tissues to the deep muscles, reaching from the knee to five inches above the ankle .
Both arms and forearms have extensive and jagged wounds .
The right thumb shows a small superficial incision about one inch long, with extravasation of blood in the skin and there are several abrasions on the back of the hand showing the same condition .
On opening the thorax it appears that the right lung is minimally adherent by old firm adhesions. The lower part of the lung is broken and torn away .
The left lung is intact: adherent at the apex and there are a few adhesions over the side. In the substance of the lung are several nodules of consolidation .
The pericardium is open below .
In the abdominal cavity is some partly digested food and fish and potatoes and similar food was found in the remains of the stomach attached to the intestines .
Spitalfields, 1888 .
The heart is absent and the door locked from the inside .
I woke to find them
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