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“The trouble with these people is they take themselves too seriously. In fact, they take everything too seriously.” She offered up a half-hearted grunt by way of reply, because she didn’t want to encourage him. If he thought he had her attention, he would keep going, on and on, about this, that and the other.
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My removal was a final act of tenderness. Moments before, eye to eye, she made the decision. Fidelity, it turns out,takes many forms. She stroked his head and they inhaled together. But when she breathed again, hers was the only breath, and she suffocated it with a shudder of tears. From that moment I lay
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They served her notice. In three days they would come to clear it away. It was dangerous, they said. A public nuisance, they said. People could trip and fall, they said. It had to go. More than once they said that. But she had watched them, these hapless pedestrians. Ambling down the street, minding their
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Bobby was late. Just left me standing there outside the train station. When it started to rain, I gave up waiting and headed to the pub across the road. I thought, “Let him figure it out”. The place was packed. The only free space, a stool at the bar. My instinct was to turn and
