I sit at my kitchen table, the same one where we used to share hurried breakfasts and late-night confessions, now staring at the empty chair across from me. The silence is deafening, not because the room is quiet, but because it lacks the familiar cadence of his voice, his laughter, even his indifference. […]

  We do not think of ourselves as victims, to do so would be weak and we are not weak. You are. We are better than you. We do however feel put upon, hard done by and persecuted and it is you that does these things in order to victimise us. Evidencing our legendary double […]

    The streetlamp flickered, casting a sickly yellow glow across the pavement, its light pooling in uneven patches like spilled oil. Beneath it, she stood, oblivious to the eyes that followed her. Her name was Eleanor, though he didn’t know that yet. Not officially. He’d heard it once, in passing, when her friend called […]

    I sit at my kitchen table, the same one where we used to share hurried breakfasts and late-night confessions, now staring at the empty chair across from me. The silence is deafening, not because the room is quiet, but because it lacks the familiar cadence of his voice, his laughter, even his indifference. […]

    The streetlamp flickered, casting a sickly yellow glow across the pavement, its light pooling in uneven patches like spilled oil. Beneath it, she stood, oblivious to the eyes that followed her. Her name was Eleanor, though he didn’t know that yet. Not officially. He’d heard it once, in passing, when her friend called […]