Sublime

He wasn’t at all difficult to replace, so he went home and the business carried on existing.

All winter had to do was roll in with a bit of freezing weather and take all the credit, like a man who’s spent twenty minutes next to a barbecue but has never served a full meal in his life.

‘He was my echo. Everything I do is quieter now,’ she said to the other women in the closet.

We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of ‘Don’t Forget!’s and ‘Remember!’s over us.