Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Names, the new suit and cold chicken.

Fiona Robyn has published a tiny piece by me on A Handful of Stones.

1. At Kitsu, Tunbridge Wells' best sushi and noodle bar, the owner discovers that Nick's name is Law. "Same as my grandparents!" She writes in Chinese for him.

2. Nick, returning from a shopping trip, walks past the window. He is swinging a new suit bag.

3. I like to make a sandwich of the greasy, lemony shreds and fragments of cold chicken picked off the carcass.

Open space, weather and turkey oak.

1. Even a small bag of books given to Oxfam has opened up space on our shelves for new books that we might want to read. 2. 'This weathe...