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dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-31T09:03:42Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-31T09:03:42Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Mawdsley, M. (2021). Whiter than the devil. THINK Magazine, 35, 66-67. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/123046 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The voices in my head tell me that I’m a bad person. They tell me I’ve done bad things. Bad things to good people. They say I’m stupid and crazy. That I’m not good enough to be outside with the rest of the world. Well… they may be right. I don't know what I’m doing and I don't know what I’m saying. But I’m bad. I know that. They told me. The voices. They told me I’m bad, so I know I’m bad. I need to get them out. Just make them go away. The voices. They drive me insane. Always talking, talking, talking. They make me SCREAM! ‘I’ve been in this cage for too long. This cage of steel and concrete and wood and rust. It's all rust. It's been rusting for years now, just like me. I've been rusting for years too. The voices have made me rust. They've made me doubt myself. I think that I’m crazy. But it's just the voices. But I’m the voices. Am I the voices? Are the voices me? Do they control me, or do I control them? No, I don't control them. They control them. The bad men. The ones who wear white. White is the devil's colour. They're worse than the devil. At least the devil wouldn't lock me in here and beat me over and over and over and over again. That's what they do. They’ve locked me in my own mind. And now I'll never escape. [excerpt] | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Malta | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Short stories | en_GB |
dc.subject | Psychiatric hospitals in literature | en_GB |
dc.title | Whiter than the devil | en_GB |
dc.type | contributionToPeriodical | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | THINK Magazine | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Mawdsley, Melissa | - |
Appears in Collections: | Think Magazine, Issue 35 |
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