Lauretta Salvini

Lauretta Salvini holds an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She lives between London and Rome teaching, writing and wearing Tasmanian boots in the rain and silk dresses in the sunshine.

Beggars in Space-Time

A refrain from a dance rock song soothes my ears as I regain consciousness. Headache pulses between my temples and all my joints are sore. My left knee hurts. I slide my hand down my leg and touch, through a rip in my jeans, the mushy softness of a wound. My breathing gets faster, as random flashes of myself cycling along an urban roadway blast in my mind like a display of fireworks. No room enough to stretch my limbs. The surface under my body has the roughness of wood.