Regret

21 July 2021 No Comments

There are half a dozen of us sitting in the lounge watching the morning news, the volume turned up because of Roy’s endless babble about the toilets not being clean, when a piece begins about how seventies fashions are returning to the high street. Good God, I hope not! And there it is, in my head, unbidden, as if it was yesterday. I see us in our flat in…

Gone

6 July 2021 No Comments

I returned to the kitchen blowing into cupped hands. “We had a delivery?” “First thing this morning.” Martin didn’t look up. “But I thought we had enough meat?” “We do.” The cleaver came down on the fresh steak with a purposeful thud. “It was spur of the  moment; compulsive you might even say.” Studying the sheet of paper pinned to the corkboard — “And you’ve changed the menu?” “Had…

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