You Only Live Once

by Maxine Morrey

‘You can be terribly annoying at times, you know that too, don’t you?’ ‘I’m your brother. It’s in the contract.’

Jack Coulsdon-Hart’s response to this, after a moment of merely staring at me, was to pat me on the head! Yes. He actually patted me on the head, said thank you and disappeared like a spectre into the crowd.

‘I like to think there’s always something redeemable, even when it looks like all hope is lost.’