December 31stMum and Emily are coming, here’s the menu, get cooking, said my wife. But she outsmarted us all.
At the beginning of this year, I dropped by one of my old secondary school classes. During the lesson
For ten drifting years, I watched over my husbands grandfather, as if time rubber-banded over itself in fog.
Emily had no desire whatsoever to get married. At nineteen, however, she found herself pregnant by Oliver
Edward was a forty-year-old bachelor, living alone in London. A few years back, he was the envy of every
“On the thirty-first, Mum and my sister will be coming round. Heres the menuget yourself into the
I have two children, and each has a different father. My eldest is a daughter. Emily is now sixteen years old.
Diary Entry, 3rd June My names Edward Wright, forty years old, and Ive never been married. Not long ago
Margaret, a retired woman living in the English countryside, cherishes her peaceful daily routine, tending
31stmum and my sister are coming, heres the menu, off to the stove, my husband said. But my wife had






