Man Eater
I was having a drink the other day with a friend who knows about my writing, indeed, I suppose I should really call him a fan. He was taking me to task for not writing anything recently. ‘Oh! That’s easy to explain,’ I said. ‘New job, a partner who knows about and doesn’t like my ‘hobby’… oh, and a lack of new plots.’ ‘Jeez!’ he said, ‘You’ll have me in tears next.’ Then he followed it up by saying, ‘Go on, what about that truism we were talking about a minute ago?’ ‘Which one?’ I...