The man read a book a week and was rarely moved.
But this particular book left him in tears.

It was a book unlike any he’d ever read,
for four very simple reasons:

1) It contained words
2) It was overwhelmingly sexually explicit
3) It was an autobiography
4) It was written by his mother

© Carl Burkitt 2017

Brief by Dave Slack: No brief was set. Dave donated £10 and left the comment “I read a book a week, so don’t need a story.”

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