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Weekly Contest #161
It wasn’t until Lockdown that Jacob realised he was lonely; before that, he had thought of himself simply as someone leading a quiet life. What he missed most was the noise, secondly the smells: the noise and the smells that had, up until now, infiltrated his subconscious from the balcony below, filling his head with joy, hope and that indefinable feeling of being truly, fully, alive. Ire, who lived in the flat beneath Jacob had, until 2020, a constant stream of friends and family religiously streaming into her welcoming home. Jerk chicken,...
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