Are You Awake?

by Claire McGowan

the babies flinging food and their parents ignoring them, determined to still lead the same lives they had before reproducing.

Tim felt so utterly removed from that world, of babies and marriage, as if he was missing a vital component.

‘I don’t know, I saw on the local forums there was a burglary over by the station last week.’

Most European thing

Mary stored up the resentment to take out on him in some small petty way.

‘People being annoyed at you isn’t the worst thing that can happen, you know.’

She could dimly remember her maths teacher at school, saying two data points is not enough to establish a pattern, you need three at least.

Stupid saying