Starting The New Year Off With A Bang

My unintentional beginning of 2022...

Photo Credit: Ian Schneider

It began in a small, boxy patio, with dubstep music wailing at us from the indoors.

I was up in Newcastle at a New Year’s Eve party. Tom sat beside me. His tweed jacket had holes in it. His ginger curls peaked out from underneath his flat cap. He had green eyes and a wicked grin; the kind of grin, I imagined, that had made schoolteachers reel as they marched him to detention.