Exciting Times

by Naoise Dolan

That hurt my ego. I wanted other people to care more about me than I did about them.

For Brits, class was like humility: you only had it as long as you denied it.

You had to pretend to feel sad if you’d been single too long. I hated doing that because there were other things I was actually sad about.

He’d voted for Brexit to have tighter borders, and was applying for an Irish passport to avoid being stopped at them.