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Chapter 1
Zane Grimm, born on the 4th of July 1948 - beloved son of Fred Grimm (coal miner) and his devoted wife Mary. Zane was their only child.
Chapter 2
From his first day to his last, Zane is badly bullied at school. In one infamous term he suffers the degrading humiliation of the "bog-wash" (having his head held in a toilet whilst it is flushed) no less than thirteen times.
On the morning of Tuesday April the 24th, whilst being teased by his fellow pupils for wearing odd-coloured socks - Zane snaps. In a fit of rage he hurls his main tormentor (Billy Toppings) down a flight of stairs. Toppings sustains two broken wrists, and his left leg is fractured in four places. Grimm is expelled, and sent to a "special" school.
Chapter 3
At his new place of learning Zane struggles to fit in, but the days generally pass uneventfully. He keeps his head down and gets on with his work, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 4
It's dinner-time, and Grimm's bowl of porridge is cunningly swapped for a portion of whisked vomit. Completely oblivious, he laps up every drop of the sweet-tasting fodder. Later, when he is mockingly informed of the disgusting reality of his dinner-time consumption, Zane descends into a crazed fever, and spends all night vomitting violently. Within his sickness and dilerium he curses his tormentors, and promises swift and dark revenge.... It is during these swirling unreal hours that he truly grasps fearlessness for the first time in his short life. The doomsday begins it's unavoidable descent.
Chapter 5
The very next day, Zane wanders into school and systematically attacks those who were responsible for his suffering.
-Thomas Riley is stabbed fifteen times in the chest with a six-inch corkscrew.
-Albert Smithers is clubbed to death with a rolling pin.
-Daniel Meeks has his right hand severed with a meat cleaver.
-Abigail Ashcroft is thrown through a 3rd storey window.
-Elizabeth Beckworth has her long locks set alight and suffers hideous facial disfigurement.
Chapter 6
Zane flees the scene and hides in dense local woodland. He remains missing and undetected for six days. During this time his mind is flooded with visions of a mesmeric hell. At night he listens to the gutteral conversations of demons. They become to him like friends, his only friends in the world. And they show him many things: dead-head jugglers entertain him; fiery-eyed bellydancers arouse him; poems written in the blood of butterflies inspire him.
Eventually he is arrested after being spotted from above by an amateur balloonist. Zane Grimm is charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
Chapter 7
His trial is short and damning. He is found guilty of all charges, and even though he is a juvenile, he is sent down for life. The judge recommends a minimum prison sentence of twenty-five years. The local and national media paint Zane as a dark-seed, a baby-faced ogre, a devil-child.
Chapter 8
Grimm's mind is now nothing more than a cold ruin: his eyes like broken windows through which only empty rooms lie beyond. For his own safety and the safety of the other inmates, he is sectioned in solitary confinement for an indefinate period.
Chapter 9
Nothing happens. Just darkness within - blacks pools of emptiness - broken only by the occasional infernal chatter of his personal demons. But they are his friends, his only friends, and they tell him of a doomsday descending.
Chapter 10
The years pass.... and like the lifting of a veil, his will-to-live slowly returns. He spends his time reading the epic stories of great novelists; memorizing the sumptuous verse of famous poets; studying the masterworks of artistic geniuses.
Eventually the day dawns: the day of his release. He walks out of the prison gates a middle-aged man. His forlorn parents are there to meet him. It's Christmas, 1989.
Chapter 11
Back in the outside world, a grey mediocrity ensues. Zane thanks God for every unremarkable day that passes. He wonders if it will continue. He hopes and prays with all his heart that it will.
Chapter 12
And nothing happens. His life is like a wasteland, but this is how he wants it - to be a nameless nobody unseen in the shadows. And for five unremarkable months this is how it was, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 13
The number thirteen. Unlucky for some. Unlucky for Zane Grimm.
Whilst running to catch a bus, a ten year old goof litters the sidewalk with a handful of marbles causing Zane to slip violently. As he falls his head connects with the sharp corner of a waste-paper bin. It's a sickening impact. The blood from his wound trickles into the roadside gutter. He is rushed to hospital.
Chapter 14
For twenty-seven days and nights Zane finds himself silently screaming in the twilight dreamscapes of coma.
Chapter 15
Eventually to his dreaming-eye comes a familiar horned figure who whispers into his disappearing core: "Under-love is the Law - to Abuse is to Use correctly."
A blood-red door opens leading down into a blood-red interior. Clothed in the doomed rags of a damned fate, Zane descends, and the circle is complete.
The End.
Zane Grimm, born on the 4th of July 1948 - beloved son of Fred Grimm (coal miner) and his devoted wife Mary. Zane was their only child.
Chapter 2
From his first day to his last, Zane is badly bullied at school. In one infamous term he suffers the degrading humiliation of the "bog-wash" (having his head held in a toilet whilst it is flushed) no less than thirteen times.
On the morning of Tuesday April the 24th, whilst being teased by his fellow pupils for wearing odd-coloured socks - Zane snaps. In a fit of rage he hurls his main tormentor (Billy Toppings) down a flight of stairs. Toppings sustains two broken wrists, and his left leg is fractured in four places. Grimm is expelled, and sent to a "special" school.
Chapter 3
At his new place of learning Zane struggles to fit in, but the days generally pass uneventfully. He keeps his head down and gets on with his work, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 4
It's dinner-time, and Grimm's bowl of porridge is cunningly swapped for a portion of whisked vomit. Completely oblivious, he laps up every drop of the sweet-tasting fodder. Later, when he is mockingly informed of the disgusting reality of his dinner-time consumption, Zane descends into a crazed fever, and spends all night vomitting violently. Within his sickness and dilerium he curses his tormentors, and promises swift and dark revenge.... It is during these swirling unreal hours that he truly grasps fearlessness for the first time in his short life. The doomsday begins it's unavoidable descent.
Chapter 5
The very next day, Zane wanders into school and systematically attacks those who were responsible for his suffering.
-Thomas Riley is stabbed fifteen times in the chest with a six-inch corkscrew.
-Albert Smithers is clubbed to death with a rolling pin.
-Daniel Meeks has his right hand severed with a meat cleaver.
-Abigail Ashcroft is thrown through a 3rd storey window.
-Elizabeth Beckworth has her long locks set alight and suffers hideous facial disfigurement.
Chapter 6
Zane flees the scene and hides in dense local woodland. He remains missing and undetected for six days. During this time his mind is flooded with visions of a mesmeric hell. At night he listens to the gutteral conversations of demons. They become to him like friends, his only friends in the world. And they show him many things: dead-head jugglers entertain him; fiery-eyed bellydancers arouse him; poems written in the blood of butterflies inspire him.
Eventually he is arrested after being spotted from above by an amateur balloonist. Zane Grimm is charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
Chapter 7
His trial is short and damning. He is found guilty of all charges, and even though he is a juvenile, he is sent down for life. The judge recommends a minimum prison sentence of twenty-five years. The local and national media paint Zane as a dark-seed, a baby-faced ogre, a devil-child.
Chapter 8
Grimm's mind is now nothing more than a cold ruin: his eyes like broken windows through which only empty rooms lie beyond. For his own safety and the safety of the other inmates, he is sectioned in solitary confinement for an indefinate period.
Chapter 9
Nothing happens. Just darkness within - blacks pools of emptiness - broken only by the occasional infernal chatter of his personal demons. But they are his friends, his only friends, and they tell him of a doomsday descending.
Chapter 10
The years pass.... and like the lifting of a veil, his will-to-live slowly returns. He spends his time reading the epic stories of great novelists; memorizing the sumptuous verse of famous poets; studying the masterworks of artistic geniuses.
Eventually the day dawns: the day of his release. He walks out of the prison gates a middle-aged man. His forlorn parents are there to meet him. It's Christmas, 1989.
Chapter 11
Back in the outside world, a grey mediocrity ensues. Zane thanks God for every unremarkable day that passes. He wonders if it will continue. He hopes and prays with all his heart that it will.
Chapter 12
And nothing happens. His life is like a wasteland, but this is how he wants it - to be a nameless nobody unseen in the shadows. And for five unremarkable months this is how it was, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 13
The number thirteen. Unlucky for some. Unlucky for Zane Grimm.
Whilst running to catch a bus, a ten year old goof litters the sidewalk with a handful of marbles causing Zane to slip violently. As he falls his head connects with the sharp corner of a waste-paper bin. It's a sickening impact. The blood from his wound trickles into the roadside gutter. He is rushed to hospital.
Chapter 14
For twenty-seven days and nights Zane finds himself silently screaming in the twilight dreamscapes of coma.
Chapter 15
Eventually to his dreaming-eye comes a familiar horned figure who whispers into his disappearing core: "Under-love is the Law - to Abuse is to Use correctly."
A blood-red door opens leading down into a blood-red interior. Clothed in the doomed rags of a damned fate, Zane descends, and the circle is complete.
The End.
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Chapter 1
Zane Grimm, born on the 4th of July 1948 - beloved son of Fred Grimm (coal miner) and his devoted wife Mary. Zane was their only child.
Chapter 2
From his first day to his last, Zane is badly bullied at school. In one infamous term he suffers the degrading humiliation of the "bog-wash" (having his head held in a toilet whilst it is flushed) no less than thirteen times.
On the morning of Tuesday April the 24th, whilst being teased by his fellow pupils for wearing odd-coloured socks - Zane snaps. In a fit of rage he hurls his main tormentor (Billy Toppings) down a flight of stairs. Toppings sustains two broken wrists, and his left leg is fractured in four places. Grimm is expelled, and sent to a "special" school.
Chapter 3
At his new place of learning Zane struggles to fit in, but the days generally pass uneventfully. He keeps his head down and gets on with his work, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 4
It's dinner-time, and Grimm's bowl of porridge is cunningly swapped for a portion of whisked vomit. Completely oblivious, he laps up every drop of the sweet-tasting fodder. Later, when he is mockingly informed of the disgusting reality of his dinner-time consumption, Zane descends into a crazed fever, and spends all night vomitting violently. Within his sickness and dilerium he curses his tormentors, and promises swift and dark revenge.... It is during these swirling unreal hours that he truly grasps fearlessness for the first time in his short life. The doomsday begins it's unavoidable descent.
Chapter 5
The very next day, Zane wanders into school and systematically attacks those who were responsible for his suffering.
-Thomas Riley is stabbed fifteen times in the chest with a six-inch corkscrew.
-Albert Smithers is clubbed to death with a rolling pin.
-Daniel Meeks has his right hand severed with a meat cleaver.
-Abigail Ashcroft is thrown through a 3rd storey window.
-Elizabeth Beckworth has her long locks set alight and suffers hideous facial disfigurement.
Chapter 6
Zane flees the scene and hides in dense local woodland. He remains missing and undetected for six days. During this time his mind is flooded with visions of a mesmeric hell. At night he listens to the gutteral conversations of demons. They become to him like friends, his only friends in the world. And they show him many things: dead-head jugglers entertain him; fiery-eyed bellydancers arouse him; poems written in the blood of butterflies inspire him.
Eventually he is arrested after being spotted from above by an amateur balloonist. Zane Grimm is charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
Chapter 7
His trial is short and damning. He is found guilty of all charges, and even though he is a juvenile, he is sent down for life. The judge recommends a minimum prison sentence of twenty-five years. The local and national media paint Zane as a dark-seed, a baby-faced ogre, a devil-child.
Chapter 8
Grimm's mind is now nothing more than a cold ruin: his eyes like broken windows through which only empty rooms lie beyond. For his own safety and the safety of the other inmates, he is sectioned in solitary confinement for an indefinate period.
Chapter 9
Nothing happens. Just darkness within - blacks pools of emptiness - broken only by the occasional infernal chatter of his personal demons. But they are his friends, his only friends, and they tell him of a doomsday descending.
Chapter 10
The years pass.... and like the lifting of a veil, his will-to-live slowly returns. He spends his time reading the epic stories of great novelists; memorizing the sumptuous verse of famous poets; studying the masterworks of artistic geniuses.
Eventually the day dawns: the day of his release. He walks out of the prison gates a middle-aged man. His forlorn parents are there to meet him. It's Christmas, 1989.
Chapter 11
Back in the outside world, a grey mediocrity ensues. Zane thanks God for every unremarkable day that passes. He wonders if it will continue. He hopes and prays with all his heart that it will.
Chapter 12
And nothing happens. His life is like a wasteland, but this is how he wants it - to be a nameless nobody unseen in the shadows. And for five unremarkable months this is how it was, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 13
The number thirteen. Unlucky for some. Unlucky for Zane Grimm.
Whilst running to catch a bus, a ten year old goof litters the sidewalk with a handful of marbles causing Zane to slip violently. As he falls his head connects with the sharp corner of a waste-paper bin. It's a sickening impact. The blood from his wound trickles into the roadside gutter. He is rushed to hospital.
Chapter 14
For twenty-seven days and nights Zane finds himself silently screaming in the twilight dreamscapes of coma.
Chapter 15
Eventually to his dreaming-eye comes a familiar horned figure who whispers into his disappearing core: "Under-love is the Law - to Abuse is to Use correctly."
A blood-red door opens leading down into a blood-red interior. Clothed in the doomed rags of a damned fate, Zane descends, and the circle is complete.
The End.
Zane Grimm, born on the 4th of July 1948 - beloved son of Fred Grimm (coal miner) and his devoted wife Mary. Zane was their only child.
Chapter 2
From his first day to his last, Zane is badly bullied at school. In one infamous term he suffers the degrading humiliation of the "bog-wash" (having his head held in a toilet whilst it is flushed) no less than thirteen times.
On the morning of Tuesday April the 24th, whilst being teased by his fellow pupils for wearing odd-coloured socks - Zane snaps. In a fit of rage he hurls his main tormentor (Billy Toppings) down a flight of stairs. Toppings sustains two broken wrists, and his left leg is fractured in four places. Grimm is expelled, and sent to a "special" school.
Chapter 3
At his new place of learning Zane struggles to fit in, but the days generally pass uneventfully. He keeps his head down and gets on with his work, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 4
It's dinner-time, and Grimm's bowl of porridge is cunningly swapped for a portion of whisked vomit. Completely oblivious, he laps up every drop of the sweet-tasting fodder. Later, when he is mockingly informed of the disgusting reality of his dinner-time consumption, Zane descends into a crazed fever, and spends all night vomitting violently. Within his sickness and dilerium he curses his tormentors, and promises swift and dark revenge.... It is during these swirling unreal hours that he truly grasps fearlessness for the first time in his short life. The doomsday begins it's unavoidable descent.
Chapter 5
The very next day, Zane wanders into school and systematically attacks those who were responsible for his suffering.
-Thomas Riley is stabbed fifteen times in the chest with a six-inch corkscrew.
-Albert Smithers is clubbed to death with a rolling pin.
-Daniel Meeks has his right hand severed with a meat cleaver.
-Abigail Ashcroft is thrown through a 3rd storey window.
-Elizabeth Beckworth has her long locks set alight and suffers hideous facial disfigurement.
Chapter 6
Zane flees the scene and hides in dense local woodland. He remains missing and undetected for six days. During this time his mind is flooded with visions of a mesmeric hell. At night he listens to the gutteral conversations of demons. They become to him like friends, his only friends in the world. And they show him many things: dead-head jugglers entertain him; fiery-eyed bellydancers arouse him; poems written in the blood of butterflies inspire him.
Eventually he is arrested after being spotted from above by an amateur balloonist. Zane Grimm is charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
Chapter 7
His trial is short and damning. He is found guilty of all charges, and even though he is a juvenile, he is sent down for life. The judge recommends a minimum prison sentence of twenty-five years. The local and national media paint Zane as a dark-seed, a baby-faced ogre, a devil-child.
Chapter 8
Grimm's mind is now nothing more than a cold ruin: his eyes like broken windows through which only empty rooms lie beyond. For his own safety and the safety of the other inmates, he is sectioned in solitary confinement for an indefinate period.
Chapter 9
Nothing happens. Just darkness within - blacks pools of emptiness - broken only by the occasional infernal chatter of his personal demons. But they are his friends, his only friends, and they tell him of a doomsday descending.
Chapter 10
The years pass.... and like the lifting of a veil, his will-to-live slowly returns. He spends his time reading the epic stories of great novelists; memorizing the sumptuous verse of famous poets; studying the masterworks of artistic geniuses.
Eventually the day dawns: the day of his release. He walks out of the prison gates a middle-aged man. His forlorn parents are there to meet him. It's Christmas, 1989.
Chapter 11
Back in the outside world, a grey mediocrity ensues. Zane thanks God for every unremarkable day that passes. He wonders if it will continue. He hopes and prays with all his heart that it will.
Chapter 12
And nothing happens. His life is like a wasteland, but this is how he wants it - to be a nameless nobody unseen in the shadows. And for five unremarkable months this is how it was, until the dawn of that fateful day....
Chapter 13
The number thirteen. Unlucky for some. Unlucky for Zane Grimm.
Whilst running to catch a bus, a ten year old goof litters the sidewalk with a handful of marbles causing Zane to slip violently. As he falls his head connects with the sharp corner of a waste-paper bin. It's a sickening impact. The blood from his wound trickles into the roadside gutter. He is rushed to hospital.
Chapter 14
For twenty-seven days and nights Zane finds himself silently screaming in the twilight dreamscapes of coma.
Chapter 15
Eventually to his dreaming-eye comes a familiar horned figure who whispers into his disappearing core: "Under-love is the Law - to Abuse is to Use correctly."
A blood-red door opens leading down into a blood-red interior. Clothed in the doomed rags of a damned fate, Zane descends, and the circle is complete.
The End.