10 Things That Never Happened (Material World #1)

by Alexis Hall

He stares into his coffee. He takes it the same colour as his eyes.

more sparkly balls than a season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

“But it’s a hard thing to know your son reached for the stars because he was determined to be as little like you as possible.”

cats are genetically programmed to be narcissists—

“You’ve come into my life like a beam of very annoying sunshine. You talk so much that I miss it when you’re not. You try to fix things I didn’t even realise were broken. You have a dreadful sense of humour to which I’ve somehow become habituated. You care about people so effortlessly it makes me able to put up with them.

And then you kissed me and now I…” He lets his head slip further down into his hands. “…I don’t know how I’m supposed to go the rest of my life without being kissed by you again.”

Like I know we’ve shagged and that changes things, but I didn’t think my cock was the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Because when it’s just you and the silence it’s easy to feel like you don’t exist, like you might as well have never existed. Like you’re nothing at all.

Between the cold, the sad, and the nothing, the whole day slips away,