The Cool Kids

They were fairly unobtrusive at a party which wasn’t a particularly raucous affair to begin with. If anyone had stopped to think about it they would have realized that before the night was through someone would be too drunk to remember how she got home the following morning; someone else would have puked all over […]

Speedy Date

They turned up in front of each other, two unlikely people at a speed-dating session. “So,” she said, pen hovering over a square he couldn’t see, “What do you do?” He looked from the pen that looked poised to strike to the eyes that had already struck and forced a smile, “Aren’t you supposed to […]

Dirty Old Man

He felt like a man in a mid-life crisis. He was not yet thirty-five and he wondered whether that meant that the crises were coming earlier or whether he was destined to have a short life. Either way he didn’t think he’d like the answer. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it but his […]

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