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Michael H

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Michael has been writing professionally since the early 1990’s. Published and syndicated around the world, he has worked as a columnist and contributor for The Guardian and other UK papers including The Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, is a magazine features writer. He has been a contributing editor at Esquire for over a decade, as well as working as a screenwriter, author, and teacher. As a journalist, Michael specializes in arts and creative coverage as well as real life reportage, interviews, profiles, and biography. He has a particular interest and experience in issues relating to mental health and psychology. He has both won and been shortlisted for journalism awards in the UK including PPA and PTC writer of the year. Accustomed to working with A list and emerging talent as both a journalist and collaborator, Michael has rewritten feature projects for Warner Brothers and Disney as well as independent productions.

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As a Story Terrace writer, Michael H interviews customers and turns their life stories into books. Get to know our writer better by reading the autobiographical anecdote below!

Trouble

The first thing I remember is trouble. Not being in it, but causing it for others. In this case my sister. Twelve years older, she made a willing babysitter, so I’m told, and I daresay my mother was glad of a break. We lived near a large open space of parks, pitches, swings and ornamental ponds donated to the city forty years before I was born and beloved by its citizens to this day, albeit somewhat rundown.

In 1973 the paint on the shelters was still pristine and the foot-deep boating lake (long since drained) was big news. I was three, and my sister must have walked me there with her friend because there are three of us in the boat when my memory becomes clear. I am wearing navy blue, gold-buckled sandals and I have just enough understanding about how they fit to wriggle out of them.

I can see my foot (the right, I believe) back then even now, and I have the sense that the girls are talking to each other and paying little heed to me, so I must suppose that part of what I am about to do is a ploy for attention. What I do remember – and perhaps the reason that I remember it – is knowing, absolutely knowing, that what I am planning will cause trouble and feeling a sense of visceral, omnipotent delight at that.

Unobserved, like bound up prisoners in all those all those films I’m yet to see, I have worked my shoe and its buckle against the side of the boat to the point where I can unleash my foot from its confinement, let havoc descend and my toes wiggle free. I kick it off, laughing, believing myself to have taken control of things, and since what I see is all I know at this point, I am in now in effect and in my own mind – all powerful.

Luckily for me, the God-like toddler delusion is short lived, after a satisfying scream of surprise from my sibling there is much splashing around and the sandal is retrieved. The girls are too pleased with finding it I think to consider that I might have done this deliberately. I have a reputation as a good kid, but I know different now. More than that I have gotten away with something, tasted mischief, and savoured it consciously for the first time. I need hardly tell you it was not the last.

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