“Apparently she wasn’t coping with the divorce,” said the lady from 19B.

The man across the hallway put it down to drugs.

Even the postman had an opinion.

But when looking upwards, the uninitiated passerby would see only the billowing nightgown, a strange flightless bird moving wordlessly, determinedly towards death.

Megan has just started a PhD in Writing at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Despite the vibe of this particular submission, she’s moderately funny, and she’s got the blog to prove it.