HE WISHED WITH ALL HIS TWISTED HEART
AFTER WASHING HIMSELF, he checked the time on the kitchen clock, he started to peel the potatoes, ready for when his mother came home from work. She would probably bring a piece of fish home to be boiled up in milk, which he hated, but she had an ulcer and blamed him for causing it, all the worry he gave her.
He wished with all his twisted heart that it was terminal.