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Saturday I was thinking about this knight in armour stuff and Scope. I mean the papers have really built him up to be some man of the...

Friday This is what the Independent wrote, after it had all kicked off. The Independent Thursday 2nd April COMMENT The curse of...

Thursday At least there’s no Rehab today. No sign of Frank, either, all day. Just lessons and dinner and computer time because I’d been...

Wednesday Lauren has told Frank that I am ‘uncooperative’. Frank says that there are benefits to playing along with the Rehab meetings. ...

Tuesday Rehab. If there’s one thing I do hate about this place, it’s my fucking rehab meetings. Only coming across a couple of pigs in...

The darkest season continued about its random business each day, fussing over piles of litter at the underpass, sending squalls of rain...

When he was working, Alan had longed for the womb of his bed, just to lay there with the radio on and a coffee and the papers, the long...

There was a bright light in this otherwise dark and inescapable tunnel. A text popped into his phone, not from Annie, or a colleague, or...

And winter dragged on through a whole February of darkness and rain. The roads were sweating with salt, and the filth of the city became...

The habitual existence into which Alan had settled, like an abondoned barge in silt, did not seem to permit his thoughts being committed...