Kat – short for Katai – is odd, right? I mean, she’s not scary-weird or anything, but a little odd. Her mannerisms, especially her laugh. She does this odd thing with her hand when she’s laughing. Now, I’ll bet you’ve just pictured someone laughing and raising their hand up, like they’re about to slap their thigh or something? Not like that. It’s more like she’s got a ping pong bat in her hand, and she’s swinging her arm...

I’m looking up at the Departures board along with everyone else around me. It’s like we are all praying, or perhaps watching the numbers at the stock exchange. Hope and despair, always hope and despair. We watch as slowly, inexorably, the status info for each flight is rolled over to ‘DELAYED’, until the whole board tells the same story: ‘DELAYED, DELAYED, DELAYED’. People’s reactions are varied—one guy in a good suit tur...

“Who the fuck does he think he is?” I exclaimed, as Adhi and I pushed through the big front doors of the office tower, out into the cold gloom of Cross St in Manchester. “You’re the best resource he’s got on the project. He’s fucking lucky to have you at all!!” “I know, I know,” Adhi sighed, “I didn’t know what to say." “How can he say that about you?! God, what an Old Fuck Face he is!!” I was really getting wound up, str...

Kat - short for Katai - is looking typically gorgeous. She’s got a maxi slip skirt on, a tawny colour covered in little polka dots, and a simple white shirt. I’ll bet at least one of the two pieces is Marks and Sparks. Her heritage is one of the hill tribes in northern Thailand - she’s tall, a bit boyish, willowy, small-breasted - so longish skirts really suit her. She loves to play up to her tall Asian style by being the...

The one about yoga in bed Bec woke slowly; all was quiet. She reckoned it was maybe eight, so Riya was already having some kind of pre-conference breakfast. She pictured the mountains of pastries and bowls of designer muesli that the hotel would’ve laid on. It was a pretty big hotel, and the conference was going for three days. Maybe there was even an egg station! Oooh, egg station!! Riya loved them. Riya attended a sales...