The delay was not unexpected. Trains are not reliable on this, their nursery island. They have found themselves constrained by choices made in their proud and peacock-strutting youth, mistakes which their slower-growing contemporaries managed to avoid. Once the energy of youth ran out, they found themselves disappointingly slow, cramped and uncomfortable, and quite incapable of…
Blindness
He had never meant to end up alone. He had never made some grand decision that he was better off without people, irritating, dull, ignorant. It had just fallen out that way. He hadn’t felt that white-hot spark between himself and someone else, promised all through childhood, that welded soulmates together, or inspired friends of…