A Page From The Diary - Blog Posts

A Page From The Diary will be a series of snippets from the childhood of the Shelby siblings. Each chapter will be made of the moments that made Tommy who he is, even before the war. The process of hopes and dreams slowly dying in an abused child's mind will be presented in detail.

It won't be pretty nor lighthearted, so beware before you decide to read it.

A page from the diary

Of Thomas Shelby before he became someone

UPCOMING SERIES

Warnings (!): child abuse, trauma, poverty

September 2nd, 1926, Birmingham

I sat with my anger long enough until it told me its real name was grief. I'm not a whole person and I don't think I'll ever be. Parts of me died in the house I grew up in and i visit them in my dreams. When you're not fed love with a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.

Perhaps it's okay to grieve the child I could have been,