Daria & Pete

I would enquire, would ask exactly how they all met, but all the members of this party are now dead. … More

Blunt Force

You see things and hear things that “aren’t real” [apparently, according to everybody else but it’s all real to you] … More

1. The problem with a blood pact is that you can’t take it back. 2. It looked like the scene … More

1. Minutes these relentless finite minutes of mine he says we have to make ours count but I just count … More

1 / I watch the man in the crumpled white shirt take a swig from his can of Stella and … More

Sometimes, when consciousness was simply too painful for our sensitive souls, we would consume enough vodka, valium and zopiclone to … More

We live in peculiar times: we start a new ashtray in a plastic yoghurt pot instead of emptying the big … More

Excerpt from History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone, 2021). To read more, get a copy … More

Everyone’s dead / all my family’s dead now / it’s just me. Last man standing but I feel like I’m … More