contents

I A Surreal Joke 11 Patient Intake Questionnaire 12

Bipolar Purgatory 13 Far from Civilisation 14

Stephanie 16 SS Suppression 18 The End of the Bed 21

Beatification 20 My Interim Therapist 22

Star Vehicle 23 Sentinel of Anything 25

Landscaping 26 In These Days of Prohibition 27

II Eye Contact 31 Wife Swap 32 The Fear 33 First Signs 34 I ’ ve Been Away 36 The Moment 37 To Be Explicit 38 Adultery for Atheists 39 Ms Casanova on Life Support 40 Aesop’s Hare in the Celebrity Big Brother House 43

Self Storage 44 The Rags 45