A Cold House in the Back of the House

Jackie Newnan grew up in the countryside. There had been a tank out the back of the house that was filled every autumn, just before the cold weather set in. Although there was always a sitting room fire going, use of the radiators was strictly rationed. And so jackie newnan's house had a cold house nownon remembered her mother roaring at her and her sibblings to put on a jumper whenever one of them dared voice a complaint about the cold. She could still hear the tiny tinny tit tit, tit of his head phans. The miasmic smell of human shit seemed to be getting strongershe felt as if it were working itself