Wrecked by Tony Black
Author:Tony Black
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Chapter 24
We were well and truly through the looking glass. Up was down, left was right, and taking offence seemed to be a national obsession. This was my little considered opinion after five minutes scanning the Current Bun. Someone had left behind the paper as I sat outside Manna Mia waiting on a coffee. The hipster had sent out the tatted-up chick to take my order but from where I was seated I could see heâd dumped the badge Iâd taken the piss out of.
Half of the population hated the other half of the population. We couldnât even agree on the meaning of words any more. Everyone anyone disagreed with was Hitler and no-one could keep it together. The paper told me feminists were now rounding on trannies for not being real women. Lefties were rounding on Muslims for not having their five-year-olds taught about anal sex. Drag Queen Story Hour in nurseries was a thing.
None of this ended well. Everyday it seemed peopleâs mouths were writing new cheques that their brains couldnât cash. The world was an insane asylum and somebody, surely, was about to start rounding up those of us who needed corrective electro-therapy. I knew Iâd be front of the queue. Would stick out a mile.
A coffee cup clattered down in front of me. Got the look, one that says, âDrink up and fuck off, dickhead.â
I ventured, âThank you, now.â
Thought I might get the finger in return but was slipped the sarcastic smile instead. I made a note to start scoping for a new coffee shop. It would have to be one that hadnât quite caught up with modernity yet, think I could live without my avocado on toasted artisan cobbler anyway.
Was on my third red top when Mac appeared.
âYou look like a man who lost a pound and found a penny,â he said.
Like Iâd argue that. The artist Wyndham Lewis had once been described as being like a man who was relentlessly pursued by the FuriesâI knew the feeling.
âLetâs just say now the drugs donât work.â
Mac pulled out the chair in front of me and sat down. He was stealing one of my tabs when he spoke again, âNo they donât. They just make things worseâfind that out last night did you?â
âWoke up this morning with the mother of all hangovers and worse, Amy playing at Our Lady in the living-room.â
âNo way.â
âWay. Seems like Iâd ran away at the mouth all night. Fair put a scare on the girl. I have to sort myself out, Mac. Thereâs no way I can go on like this.â
He was courteous enough not to say I told you so. If he were playing hardball heâd have listed the times and places where heâd seen the worst himself. Maybe Iâm being too kind, maybe heâd just given up on meâfuck knows I wouldnât blame him.
I told Mac about Amyâs jaunt to Gladstoneâs. About the fact Stella had been temping there and how Amy hoped to feed back what she found out.
âItâs as good a plan as weâve got,â he said.
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