Title: The Very Devil
Author: nostalgia
Rated: PG
Summary: Little Malcolm and his Struggle With The Grown-Ups
Category: ChildhoodFic (eek), angstorama
Disclaim: Not mine, never mine, me poor.
The Usual: Feedback lovely, Archiving also lovely.
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"You, Malcolm, are the very Devil."
His mother shook her head and bent to retrieve the pieces of shattered plastic. The boy was eight years old and clumsy, and had just dropped a scale model of the HMS Wellington on the polished wooden floor. She sighed at him.
He wanted to apologise, to say it was an accident; but the fear took him and he ran out the lounge and upstairs, to his room.
His new sister started to cry.
He was going to get as far away as possible. He looked out of the window, to the stars.
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