It was a beautiful day, Friday the 13th. It was overcast, the clouds growing increasingly dark from 1pm onwards. By 3pm the sky already belonged to the 7pm timeslot. When it finally reached 6pm, the light went from a thin, cold, dirty, dim light to a complete midnight darkness. It was a darkness unlike the usual. It was sudden, clean, clear and dark as hell. Pitch.I sat down at the table and...

She walked with a mechanical precision, every step on the off-beat carefully measured at a different length each time. When she raised her head, her eyes would dart across people’s expressions, taking in everything, searching. Most of the time her head hung low, her eyes focused on the ground with a broken spirit.She wore a beanie, a tight faded blue-grey that gave the impression its wool was...