Maria de Luca

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/WithAgai1222.shtml

Cover art by Graham Gill. Thank you, Graham.

When I hear about the PM’s response to an ex-PM’s lobbying I think this:

Captain Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

So it does not reassure me, TFL, that your buses are cleaned regularly.

That could be the first Tuesday of each month.

On Saturday morning I was walking across Waterloo Bridge on my way into work when I spotted a camera drone flying overhead.

I instantly forgot how to walk.

…I was excitedly preparing for a month in New York in the early spring.

If you’d told me that within a year I’d not only have not gone to the US, but that I’d stopped having my hair cut and coloured, and that I’d stopped going out to see friends, I’d have thought that I must have had some sort of breakdown, or I’d been arrested for a crime I didn’t commit.

Or maybe did commit. Why I’m so sure I didn’t commit it?

i) wash down tablets with water as it pours from the tap

ii) have all the lights on, even in the middle of the day

If you listen to radio plays

Whilst out walking on bridleways

Hearing battle scenes on horseback

Might trigger a heart attack

…Does anyone ever win a custard pie fight?

When dry January got a lot harder….