16 TIGER LILY
by Owen Jones
Lily was lying in the bath, the water as hot as she could bear, soaking for ten minutes and then scrubbing her skin for ten minutes more before repeating the cycle over and over again. She was trying to remove the smell of ‘pig’ from herself. That was what she thought it smelled like anyway and she couldn’t think of a viler smell in all the world. She was starting to become obsessed with it or many would probably say that she already was obsessed, but she couldn’t help that any longer. If there had been a time to conquer her obsession, it had long since passed.
So, now she was stuck with it no matter how long she soaked or how hard she scrubbed.
In the beginning, she had changed her name often in the hope that a new name would somehow cleanse her, but that h
