CREATIVE RESPONSE Darkness. My whole world seems to be a dark hole. I am heavy and hollowed out. I finally come to the realisation that death is near and if I close my eyes one more time, darkness may be all I will ever see again. Tilly is by my bed side, tears flooding down her face and hunched over looking at me. Tilly and I both know that this is all we have got left, each other. Tilly has lost everything, she had the ‘perfect life’. She had the man of her dreams and a baby that she would now give up anything for. She looks as though she has no hope left, as if she is alive but dead inside. But she is giving me all the hope I’ll ever need. She is giving me hope that my life is finally worth living and I really do have a good life, but I just wasted 20 years of it. …show more content…
The walls are creaking and the wind is shaking the walls. The only movement in this house is the possum running up the walls. I can hear the footballers yelling and cheering from the football oval and can sense the quietness from the town below me. The door is constantly banging, demanding for new frocks for the new Dungatar event that comes up every weekend. The only conversation we get from the people of this town is the screeching voices of the Dungatar Social Club Committee constantly wanting to better each others new frocks. The town is nothing without Tilly and her frock making, they just don't want to say it as they are too busy being jealous of what Tilly has and they