Behind The Dentist’s Mask: Pt 3

"She walked into her divorce meeting in war paint… and walked out straight into temptation."

I’m in the toilet cubicle washing my hands for the third time, staring at myself in the mirror above the sink. The soap smells like cheap lemons, and the fluorescent light is doing me no favours, but my outfit bolsters...

Behind The Dentist’s Mask (Pt 2)

"He turns up with wide-eyed hope. Will she run or take the risk?"

I’m sat at my desk eating lunch, it’s lasagne for the fourth time this week, and I’m absolutely sick of it. I can’t seem to get out of the habit of cooking a family-sized dinner every night, even though I...

Good Boy Advent

"This advent calendar doesn't come with chocolates, just instructions."

In November I bought two Advent calendars. One is for me, the respectable kind, thick card printed with snowflakes and twenty-four little doors, behind each one a chocolate, and the faint disappointment of adulthood.The other is for Damian.It comes in...