Lucy Wilson: The Three Lucys

LUCY WILSON: THE THREE LUCYS BY PHILIP BATES

‘Me don’t know what’s happening.’ 

One day, Lucy Wilson wakes up and suddenly can’t say the word ‘I’. Its whole meaning starts to dissolve in her head, and soon, it spreads. She can’t recall what day comes after Thursday. She doesn’t know what that lesson with all the numbers is called. How soon before she loses the names of her own parents? Or her best friend, Hobo?

And she’s not the only one. Or maybe she is. Because someone is stealing the words of numerous Lucy Wilsons, across time and space. One is a middle-aged professor. One is a rebellious teen who has run away from home.

And one is our Lucy: pulled out of her universe; running out of words; running out of hope.