Today was a bad day.

I didn't notice the weather.  It probably wasn't the best weather for sitting on the beach at lunchtime, but that's what I did regardless.  There weren't that many people around and I felt comforted by that.  People had been annoying me all day.

It's all part of my job you understand, to listen to people moan.  I am not suited to ( Read more... )

I find it odd that people decide on the first day of each New Year to make a 'pact' with themselves to improve their lives in some way.  Or at least to attempt to.  Let's say you realise something is wrong with your life.  You eat shit food, or you don't exercise, or you're a serial killer who cuts off the little fingers of his victims as a ( Read more... )

He was dead and I was 7.  I could tell he was dead.  It was pretty obvious.  So it intrigued me at the time that the rest of the family (who were grown-ups and supposedly should know better) were insisting on thumping his chest and blowing into his mouth whilst screaming and crying at him that he can't die.  As if he would pay them any attention.

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