Title: Little Steps

Author: Geoff Cochrane

In: Sport 8: Autumn 1992

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, March 1992, Wellington

Part of: Sport

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Sport 8: Autumn 1992

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We have been sitting, talking of this and that, with only the illumination a Christmas tree provides. It has gotten dark before Ben my youngest brother returns from the lake. The lights of his car brighten the lounge as he turns into the drive. He is with us almost at once.

'Evening all. Hi, Anthony. Are you staying?' I have arrived in his absence.

'Of course.'

'You can have my bed then.'

'He cannot,' says my mother. The light Ben has switched on shows her to be knitting.

'Yeah he can. I want to sleep at the Thyme Street flat.'

'I know you do. And you'll do no such thing. You'll sleep in your own bed, thank you very much.'

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'I'll be all right on the floor,' I say unhelpfully.

Yo. In this I am seeming as Ben might, a cartoon figure with a haircut like a paper party hat, talking circled talk.

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