My mother told me I should never date a guy who didn't have his own car. She said that it set some bad precedent, mixed up the lines between provider and provided-for. There's nothing more ladylike ... [+]
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,