Sharing is caring
Anoushka believed that sharing is caring,but during her first dinner with new boyfriend Oscar’s family,his older brother,Reuben,seated beside her,told her he’d had “the snip”. “I’d make a rock pregnant,” he explained,sucking a prawn from its tail. “I wish my husband needed a vasectomy,” Oscar’s sister,Alexys,piped up from Anoushka’s blindside,“but we haven’t had sex for months. I’ve got cobwebs down there.” Anoushka blushed violently. “So,tell us something about you,” Alexys continued. Reuben leaned forward expectantly. Anoushka smiled awkwardly,fiddled with her serviette and prayed for a sinkhole to open up beneath her. Words by Paul Connolly. Illustration by Jim Pavlidis.