“How are things going with Carol then?” is the inevitable question my friends ask me when I explain I have been living with my parents for the past nine months. They ask the question in a humorous way, but underneath…
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For some time I have suspected I am destined for greatness. Until now it’s been a secret suspicion, hidden away from the ordinary others around me on the grounds it would make them feel unworthy. It must be nice, I…
When I can’t sleep, instead of counting sheep, I like to play a little game called ‘list everything I haven’t done in my life’. Getting married, having children and buying a house are the usual contenders, along with living abroad,…
When we were 13, my best friend and I developed an unyielding obsession with a girl in the sixth form of our closeted all girl’s school. Every little morsel we managed to discover about her life was clung onto and…