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I’m sorry

August 6, 2017August 5, 2017 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Jak thought he would write something a little different, something in a language that was not his, but it all went wrong. He thought he said he was sorry but it was not that at all.

Ice

August 9, 2015 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Call them ice, rocks, diamonds. Or what your sugar boy calls them. That’s what Aki had been told. But he got it wrong and paid.

Stevie googled blood

September 27, 2013September 27, 2013 / simonsalento / Leave a comment

Stevie googled “how get blood out bin bags canvas holdall”. He realised his mistake when his question autocompleted and his phone and his doorbell rang.

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