I Am Watching You

by Teresa Driscoll

So many barking into their mobile phones while everyone else ramps up the volume to compete. To be heard.

I read somewhere that by your forties you are supposed to care more about what you think of others than what they think of you – so why is it I am still waiting for this to kick in?

The two young men have just got out of prison. The black bags contain their personal effects.

Karl has served a sentence at Exeter prison for assault; Antony for theft.

What if they found out that it wasn’t only that?

Trying to give the officers just enough detail to make them take it all seriously but not enough to—