Rogues’ Blog: Pool Guide Begins Where Everyone Is Already Lost

FICTIONAL SATIRE | All institutions, scenes and dialogue are invented. The target is institutional behaviour, not disabled people.

The fictional Ballycommon pool has published everything a visitor needs to know once they have successfully found the pool.

The booklet opens with water. Lockers, tokens and the corridor resembling the other corridor were excluded to preserve its aquatic focus. The manager says it suits all swimmers already swimming.

A teacher suggested reception as a starting point. A parent suggested the changing-room route. Stan walked the sequence with them and replaced page one with the actual first step.

The original photograph is now a heritage asset: Water, as encountered by somebody who has completed the administration.