T Sievesmith

A Fire Under A Bed T Sievesmith

It is April 27th 2012 in a pre-Olympics, post-Banking Crisis Britain. Sal, Lenny and Julian are putting together a new issue of a student magazine. "What are your stories about?" "People." "People?" "People." They looked at him. "They're about people," Julian insisted, because saying the same thing with more words could potentially be just what was needed to tip them over from incomprehension into 'ah, right, now I totally get it'. Really, if he just kept on saying 'people' in different ways, he was sure they would understand in the end. "Can you tell me what happens to the people?" This story is about three people.