Skin - a one shot - for Olwen

Writing over the scars is a way of reclaiming his skin, his self. Needle buzz feels shockingly different over slick scar tissue than it does over the softer rougher skin that had been there before, but nothing compared to the feeling of looking down a thousand times a day and not recognising his own hands, how own wrists, forearms, chest and thighs.

It was a choice, but more of the devil and the deep blue sea kind than anything that he could really explain to the therapists, to his family, even to Breck, although his lover seemed to understand anyway.

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Skin - a one shot - for Olwen

Writing over the scars is a way of reclaiming his skin, his self. Needle buzz feels shockingly different over slick scar tissue than it does over the softer rougher skin that had been there before, but nothing compared to the feeling of looking down a thousand times a day and not recognising his own hands, how own wrists, forearms, chest and thighs.

It was a choice, but more of the devil and the deep blue sea kind than anything that he could really explain to the therapists, to his family, even to Breck, although his lover seemed to understand anyway.

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