This is a women's thing, right? Women of a 'certain age'? Blokes don't suffer from it do they? Well, not unless they're pissed and I'm certainly not pissed. Fair enough, I've had a drink (a small one, very small one) while I wait for Tess to show but I'm not pissed now and I wasn't then, when it happened for the first time. Or the second time. Or the third time.
Dave parks the van outside. The pub's filling up already. He stands with Stephen, buys himself a pint, has a quick scan. Nothing leaps out, none of them pretty enough to warrant the charm. Plenty of time, though. The night is young. He sips his pint.
As usual when he wasn't drinking, Ben was desperately thirsty.
All he wanted was a glass of water. The glass of water that he was looking at in fact, the one the receptionist had brought over and set down on the glass-topped coffee table in front of him.
I always wish I'd been a smoker. Well, not really – but you know what I mean. I've seen all the European movies, all the Hollywood films noir – hell, even Bladerunner made it look cool. There's just something about how people look when they do it well, this creamy white smoke rising from their mouths, like they've got fire actually inside them – like they're more than human. Demons, maybe, or dragons.
She was a singer, aye. Didnae stop her, no way. Twenty a day, sometimes more, y'know? Greedy for 'em. Would rather smoke than eat. Only things she liked more were the bevvy and the old sweet lovin', o' course, but as she said, you can combine those two wi' a fag most of the time, if ye're canny.
Journalist Catriona Troth came along to our Twist & Turn night, reviewed it and interviewed Katy, Liam, Cliff and author/actor Carrie. See what she said in her article for WordsWithJam here.
BUY OUR AUTHORS' NEW BOOKS!
Longtime contributors Niall Boyce, Jonathan Pinnock & Richard Smyth all have books out which you'd be well advised to buy, then read, then buy for others. All genres are catered for, from novels (Niall's Veronica Britton) and short stories (Jonathan's Dot Dash) to nonfiction (Richard's Bumfodder)
KATY LIAR'S DEBUT NOVEL
Liar Katy Darby's debut novel, a Victorian drama called The Unpierced Heart (previously titled The Whores' Asylum) is now out in Penguin paperback. It's had nice reviews in The Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times & Metro (4*).
OUR INTERVIEW WITH ANNEXE MAG!
They came, they saw, they asked us a bunch of interesting questions. Interview by Nick of Annexe Magazine with Katy of LL: here
