Wednesday 2 January 2013

Droopy Drawers. Is that your Vinyl Answer?

He was certainly no Perry Mason.

The revelation by Dee that it was goodbye to romance had been like a shot in the dark to him.

"I want it more", she had said, "I don't know why I've stuck it with a fool like you, more obsessed with the Almighty Dollar than me. You were once my hero, a killer of giants, my centre of eternity"

She had been planning to steal away, tonight, never to be part again of that crazy train of a relationship. There was as she had said, no easy way out but she would shed no more tears on that road to nowhere.

He secretly knew that they had been running out of time, when he'd overheard her on the phone, "Mama, I'm coming home. I love you all". It was a case of the countdown begins.

Thank God for that bomb-shell he thought, for the first time feeling alive after being so tired. He was coming out of a mental black rain.

His ultimate sin? Perhaps waiting for darkness and the demon alcohol. It had made him bark at the moon. He had hit the depths but there was no thought of a suicide solution. He was a firm believer in that. "You're no different" he uttered under his breath.

It was, he realised, time to slow down.

Mr Crowley was confident that he was going to be alright. "See you on the other side " he scoffed at his critics. Lightning strikes but once. He could hear them eating their own words.

Tomorrow he would be flying high again, over the mountains and into a sunset like a fire in the sky.

The aircraft accelerated down the long runway and he was airborne banking sharply over Ozzy Osbourne International Airport, Birmingham.

(Compiled from album tracks from the playlist of Ozzy Osbourne. A short story inspired by the proposals by Birmingham, UK to rename the International Airport in honour of one of their famous sons. This follows the trend set by John Lennon Airport in Liverpool and George Best Airport in Belfast)

Guesses as to how many song titles are in the story on the message board please. No Prizes offered, just an honorary place at the table of the Godfather of Heavy Metal and an apprenticeship with the Prince of Darkness.

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