They must have been walking for a good two hours. The lights of the town are far behind them. The houses disappeared long ago. Now they are walking through the forest and night is falling. Tom is ... [+]
Susan lives in London. She recently gained a creative writing degree and has published her first book of short stories "A Jumble of Good Intentions." "Coping with Change," was originally published in Short Edition’s July '19 Rendez-Vous.
The seventh day in my new flat, I found a worm in the fridge. It was flat, black and dead. I quite like interesting animals, but not this one – it looked remarkably like a leech. Where had it come from? I live in the centre of a city where veggies are sold in sterile plastic bags. Which is not great for the environment, but people know what they're getting and someone else has already trimmed and washed the stuff. So I double-bagged the corpse and put it in the freezer. Eric might fancy it later. By the time I had tipped everything out of the fridge and used bleach to disinfect it thoroughly,