Blip (a short story)

(the first of a series of 1-page shorts on homelessness, destitution, stories that document the homeless experience for our homeless project. Some will be fictional, some factual)
He sits on the sloping stones. He sits at the end of the cycle lane that passes by the University library, on the way into town. It can’t be [...]

Empathy and our homeless project

I never warmed to Alain de Botton. For a number of reasons: 1) his Essays on Love were, I felt, dressed up as more than they actually were, and I felt I could have done better; and 2) but then he actually did it—wrote the thing—and I had not; 3) everything else that followed was [...]