Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna

On every beautiful day, people feel compelled to look out their window and say, ‘It’s very worrying, isn’t it?’ as if it were tasteless to comment on the warm sun and blue sky without remarking on the mass extinction of humans and whales within the same breath.

At this precise moment in time, he is a young person in the city, finished work for the weekend, and on his way to have sex with a man he adores. What phenomenal luck! What greater pleasure! What deeper joy can this life provide?

and yes, to enjoy her own company would be a fine thing, but getting a boyfriend seemed easier, and what was so wrong with the path of least resistance?

Talking to Ali now, Maggie hopes for the baby to be a girl, and for any babies after that to be girls too, or gay boys, or at least vaguely non-binary. She’s already responsible for the emotional well-being of Ed and Phil and she doesn’t want to be responsible for yet another man.