Between the commuter train and the office, the lunch break and working late.

Between the park and the bookshop, where I delay going home, to the apartment where I don’t want to be.

Before the morning alarm begins another day.

I never really stop.

Anything to not think, not feel.

Brian Maycock’s short stories have recently appeared in The Drabble, Flash Fiction Magazine and Paragraph Planet. He lives in Scotland.