My Sister's Friend (1)

John was escorted out of his cell. It was the last time he would be. Some other inmates, as he passed, said goodbye. Some even called him by his actual name as opposed to one they've guessed. John, for the past seven years made no real impact on any others. And in a few minutes time, he wouldn't be able to change that.


Jenny was in London on a long weekend. Shopping and seeing a show was all she had planned until Monday afternoon. Then she had to pick up her little brother.

Jenny was aimlessly walking up Oxford Street near closing time for the shops. She had done more than her fair* share to help the economy today. As she started to look for a place to check up on all the day's prizes

The Biography of the boy who would become O W Dawson (8)

    "There's that spark, that unquantifiable thing we all want to say we have, that he has got. I could see he didn't know it too. He's a man who knows where he's going and how to get there but he doesn't, not to my knowledge, know it's easier for him because of that spark."

        "There have been many times I wished he'd be more serious, more like the sincere characters he has played, but to wish that is like wishing away some of the best moments we've had together. He struggled to start with because of this lack of, say, maturity, but that's because this business has lost some of it's child-like innocence, which he still has. He's not by any means a child, but the world around him still brings an enjoyment which many of us lost."

The Biography of the boy who would become O W Dawson (7)

      "He's great to be around. Easy to get on with. Just easy. He's more interested in making things easier for everyone else than the goal at hand. A real social person. Spending time with him is like a black hole, you could be with him and not realise you've just wasted  two or three hours. It's not right to say wasted, no time is wasted with him, it all just a good time. He's not burdened by deadlines or appointments, he can charm his way out of any lateness, it's like people just understand why. I can imagine they would think it was the other's not letting him go rather than him."

   "One thing I would add, secretly, on his own, he works really hard but he does it away from other people. Whenever he's needed to have worked, he has. He just does it privately, shyly away from others. I don't know why, but it does add to that image he has."

     "I don't think he's arrogant, I know a lot of other people, people, I might add, who don't actually know him, say he's arrogant. Maybe, you could level self-assured at him, but in this line of work, we all are self-assured."

The Biography of the boy who would become O W Dawson (6)

       "When I knew him whilst we did the architecture degree, up in Glasgow, it was awkward.
I didn't know how to act around him. I wasn't the only one too. I guess some of us didn't get him. I was all awkward and difficult. He either planned it that way or just wasn't aware of it. The strange thing was he did nothing to help the situation, it was almost like he liked it."
                                        
       "Then, a couple of years later, due to a mutual friend, he came to visit us in London. It was amazing how different it was. To be honest, I didn't think that much of him before then, now, I think he's one of those people who could do anything they wanted in life, I just don't know why it took him so long."