Flesh

Flesh

He sleeps with Thomas’s nanny. She’s Canadian, about twenty-five, and also lives in the house, in another small apartment at the top of the service stairs.It just sort of happens.One evening they arrive home at the same time.She’s drunk.She asks him if he wants...
There Are Rivers In The Sky

There Are Rivers In The Sky

The day he receives his first wages, King Arthur of the Sewers and Slums leaves the office with a quiet sense of achievement. As it is a Saturday, most of the shops have stayed open late – the gin halls, the oyster saloons, the tobacconists, the confectioners, the...
Love For That

Love For That

“It’s not about how long we live, but how wide we live”Said someone to me as I was trying to cry secretly on a bench in Kilburn.You’re just like me so that means you’re different.I pray to the east, you pray to the skyBut in London...
Albert Angelo

Albert Angelo

The tablemanners are appalling by Mr. Coulter’s standards. You notice him correcting one eight-year-old girl for some time. You do not attempt to do anything similar yourself: these children and their manners are the product of their environment, and therefore suit...