You Are Here

by David Nicholls

like a thank-you letter she kept meaning to write until too much time had passed and it became an embarrassment.

present but as anonymous as someone clapping in a stadium crowd.

their friendship was a job for which she must continually reapply.

Dad, who’d long carried the stress of keeping the business open, now felt the guilt of watching it close.

A common mistake in manuscripts was confusion over the words ‘envy’ and ‘jealousy’, the first meaning to want what someone else has, the second including the fear that someone might take what’s yours.

‘Costa Rica’ said the sticky label. What was this banana doing here? What was she doing here?