April 7th, 2021 – ‘A Quick Slip of the Knife’
Before the blade moved through my thumb, I told Steve the dishwasher as he looked on: ‘You need to be careful when you do this, Steve.’
April 4, 2021 – ‘A Friend and his Fiancée‘
A few years ago I visited my rainy hometown with a bandaged thumb.
March 14th, 2021 – ‘A Small Grey Cat’
There was a small grey cat in the alley next to my building as I passed and worried that maybe it didn’t have an owner and hoped that it wouldn’t get hit by a car but cats were pretty smart especially alley-cats.
March 8, 2021- ‘Seventy-five Hours a Week’
Many summers ago, I worked seventy-five hours a week for a pool cleaning company. It was a lot of work and it left me too tired to see any of my friends in the evening.
March 1st, 2021 – ‘La Petite Idée Fixe’
Idée Fixe? You’ve never been? That place over there, with the for-sale sign?
One fine morning in August, I walked south on Parc Avenue to a call-centre job I didn’t particularly care for.
February 14th, 2021- ‘Morning after Acid’
So, I’m not dead, I thought.
Oliver Sullivan 