House of Silence
“Alfie must be - or at one time must have been - ambidextrous. Or the negative had been printed back-to-front. That seemed the most likely explanation. This thought calmed me a little, until, in my mind’s eye, I saw the rest of the picture and the background against which young Alfie had been photographed. The scoreboard was visible and the numbers hadn’t been reversed.
So the boy in the photograph was left-handed.
But the boy in the other photographs appeared to be right-handed. If memory serve...d me - and I’d studied those photos for several minutes - the toddler carried his plastic bucket in his right hand; the boy in the tree was waving his right hand; the schoolboy actor held a shepherd’s crook in his right hand. But the boy playing cricket was left-handed.
There had to be an explanation.
There had to be.
I sat in my room brooding uselessly.
Eventually I decided to go and find someone to talk to. I changed my slippers for shoes, brushed my hair and headed downstairs. As I passed the sitting room I could hear Hattie and Alfie talking - arguing, in fact, their conversation interrupted now and again by snatches of jaunty piano music.MoreLess
So the boy in the photograph was left-handed.
But the boy in the other photographs appeared to be right-handed. If memory serve...d me - and I’d studied those photos for several minutes - the toddler carried his plastic bucket in his right hand; the boy in the tree was waving his right hand; the schoolboy actor held a shepherd’s crook in his right hand. But the boy playing cricket was left-handed.
There had to be an explanation.
There had to be.
I sat in my room brooding uselessly.
Eventually I decided to go and find someone to talk to. I changed my slippers for shoes, brushed my hair and headed downstairs. As I passed the sitting room I could hear Hattie and Alfie talking - arguing, in fact, their conversation interrupted now and again by snatches of jaunty piano music.MoreLess
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