slice-of-life
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Squatter
A zebra spider has made her home under the garden table on my patio.
The Man with the Elongated Nipples
It was twenty years ago when Samuel ‘Default Eustace’ Skrunt inherited the rights to the folk ballad, ‘The Elfin Knight’.
Learning to Forget
The first essay in Kevin Breathnach’s ‘Tunnel Vision’ (2019) is a profile of portrait photographer Berenice Abbott, whose ‘Self-Portrait with a Large-format Camera’ (1926) frames Breathnach’s account of her life, her place within the 1930s arts scene of New York, and the relationship between her photography and the viewer.
Bruises
“Ouch!” Case laughed, with a large, honest smile on her face.
The Man Who Took Leave of His Wife
The man took leave of his wife, who was busy rolling large balls of lint into an even larger ball of lint from which she would, come wintertime, pull handfuls of lint to use as tinder in the fireplace, and then he set out on his way.
On the Generation of Animals
The discovery of her body fell to a pair of teenage boys who guessed that the apartment was probably vacant, and wanted to try picking the lock.
The Butcher of Prague
“Give us meat, bastard!”