My phone doesn’t ring often—it makes me jump when it does—and it’s usually people asking if I’ve been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance. I whisper I know where you live to them, and hang up the ph...
She looked at him with so much love that I had to turn away. At least I know what love looks like, I told myself. That's something. No one had ever looked at me like that, but I'd be able to recognize...
The barman was well over six feet tall and had created strange, enormous holes in his earlobes by inserting little black plastic circles in order to push back the skin. For some reason, I was reminded...
The crematorium was a busy place and the parking spaces were needed, I supposed. I’m not sure I’d like to be burned. I think I might like to be fed to zoo animals. It would be both environmentally fri...
Then I felt bad. Even alcoholics deserve help, I suppose, although they should get drunk at home, like I do, so that they don’t cause anyone else any trouble. But then, not everyone is as sensible and...
Then the beat changed abruptly and everyone started doing the same thing, making strange shapes with their arms above their head. It took me a moment or two to learn the shapes, and then I was able to...
Why is it that client-facing jobs hold such allure for misanthropes?
All you hear these days is that everything’s going to hell in a handcart, how everybody’s a pedophile or a crook, and it’s not true. You forget that the world is full of ordinary decent people like yo...
Compadezco a la gente guapa. Desde el momento en que poseen belleza, se les escapa de las manos, es efímera. Debe de ser difícil tener que demostrar continuamente que eres algo más, querer que los dem...
En el corazón tengo cicatrices igual de gruesas y feas que las de la cara. Sé que están ahí. Pero espero que quede algo de tejido sano, un pequeño retal por el que pueda entrar el amor y colarse dentr...
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