The bright white neon light pierced her skull like a bolt and burned on her eyes like drops of acid. It wasn’t so much the light but much more the smell that revealed the secret of where she was. The lingering odour of sanitiser filled the stuffy hospital room and it remained on her tongue like a thin film of oil. She did not feel her body, it was as if her limbs did not exist anymore, but there w...
I know that most people don't like their job. I see them on the tube, dragging themselves to their miserable nine-to-five to pay off their mortgage. I look into their eyes, they are dead inside. They live for that Friday afternoon feeling, a few hours when everything is okay. Well, I hate my job. I hate it with a passion. I hate it so much I think about leaving it every minute of every day, all ye...
The shrill sound of the alarm clock pierced my skull much earlier than usual. You might think that I hit the snooze button, but I did not. I do not hit snooze, I am not that guy, I am the guy who gets things done. Like every morning, I got up without hesitation, made my bed, had a black cup of coffee no sugar, took a four-minute-and thirty-second-long ice-cold shower and visualised my day. This da...