The author discusses “Bruises,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.
” is a former British soldier who fought in Iraq. He is clearly suffering from P.T.S.D., though he doesn’t refer to it in any way. What drew you to the idea of writing about this character?
I’m not sure that he gets any relief. That’s why it’s a repeated process—a compulsion, like a drug. There’s much in this story that isn’t rational at all: a “quiet” man who yet seeks violence, who starts fights in pubs. This same man has a job as an orderly in a psychiatric hospital. As he puts it, “It was work I could get,” but he clearly doesn’t find a psychiatric hospital strange or frightening, as most people would. He feels almost at home in it and identifies with the patients.
All this said, I hope that my story finds its particular way of dealing with the narrator’s plight. To put it broadly, and to forget for a moment clinical terminology such as “P.T.S.D.,” my character knows about hell. When he “goes into himself,” he goes into a sort of hell: the hell of his memories of war and the hell of what war has done to him. “Hell” is a word, an idea that reverberates through the story, even in the common use made of it in the expression “go to hell.
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