I had to kill my own cow to make a burger. In a lucid dream the cow, Minnie, shared with me the reasons it looked

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“Has my friend checked your bag?” the old security guard says. “Yes,” I reply. His colleague, a young Asian chap wearing shades, has indeed perfunctorily

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Ralph Nader turns up to an Al Gore book-signing event. According to Dana Milbank in the Washington Post, two men in the line approach Nader

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Sohrab Eshraghi always wore a suit. A slim cigar between his fingers, he sat in the same corner each night, gazing well past the walls

Mr Fallopian, my landlord, was drunk when he came to collect the rent. “It was a brown envelope – you remember,” I told him on

BOB: Where are you from? MAK: Battersea. BOB: I've never seen you there and I live there. MAK: It's actually Clapham, not far. BOB: My

News control – Events such as these can be pivotal for fascist regimes, so propose series of Holocaust cartoons — headline grabber. Ask the BBC

JEZ, a young hearse driver, is parked on Chiswick High Road in London. His colleagues are in a pub having lunch. Half asleep, he hears

A couple invited me to a threesome. The woman was attractive. I thought why not. Not with us, they said. Then who? Three Russian girls.

Every morning Sarah, the Nigerian woman who lives downstairs with her little boy shouts at him and wakes me up. When my washing machine leaked

Will asks for a pint. (I only offered out of politeness — colleague from another floor; but fine — he wants one, I’ll buy.) He

Mr Potato was late. He was always late. Even when he tried his best to hurry he would end up late. Sometimes he would get

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