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close to touch 8 Aug 2013 | 01:26 am
He caught a glimpse of her as she exited the sauna and he entered the steam room. Worth a second look as she moved towards a shower. Mediterranean skin, hypnotic curves, exotic, as if she belonged o...
related to death 20 Jul 2013 | 02:27 pm
My experience of death remains mercifully slight up to now, the most profound being the death of a dog with whom I had grown up from the age of 6 weeks to 12 years. My girlfriend’s experience of deat...
don’t get the joke 9 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
Walking to the cinema I begin unpicking the wires of my headphones, trying to untangle them, make sense of their ends and loops. Absently at times but stubbornly too, never giving in, I persevere as ...
competitive nature 29 Jun 2013 | 05:46 pm
Mum wasn’t home during the week when I called, so I spoke to Dad for a little longer than normal. I told him how my lower back had spasmed, like it now does every 15 months or so, causing acute pain....
glow in the dark 13 Jun 2013 | 07:48 pm
“If you don’t want to read that book, then don’t read it.” She shrugs, ignores him. He sees the glow of her smartphone screen out of the corner of his eye. Beyond the foreground of his own book, the...
why I’ll be cheap 18 Apr 2013 | 04:52 pm
Knowing and being confident in your own value is one of the most difficult things for a freelancer. It’s great to have a strong sense of it: admirable, commendable, advisable. But it’s also fine not ...
job’s worth 15 Apr 2013 | 05:08 pm
Last week I came the closest in a while to getting a proper job again. It was a job working in a technology firm of the kind I have worked both in and with before. My skills and experience were dire...
black noise 29 Mar 2013 | 09:09 pm
Terry jerked awake in the middle of the night, it must have been around 3am. He lived in a small second floor flat in the middle of the city. His wife always liked to crack a small window “so the ai...
on your side 28 Mar 2013 | 10:43 pm
It often seems that there’s a need to get the right people on your side in order to succeed in life. You can’t NOT be picked by anyone and just play your own game instead. You can’t stay stuck in a bo...
burning rubbish 11 Mar 2013 | 12:54 am
“Take it you never met their Dad?” I asked as flames spat from the old metal bin. “No, unfortunately.” “Unfortunately?” I asked, a hint of challenge in my voice. “Or maybe fortunately?” “Yeah, well.....
