War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life’s tragedies.
You wouldn’t think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we’ll do it one day. That’s how negligent we are.
And little girls went to charm schools. Now you’ve all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
…trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.
My father was a slave to capitalist ideology. He didn’t know what he was doing.””You mean you went to an expensive school?
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.
The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge,
This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?