Badlove Radio
They’ve sat all day alone, watching TV, playing music. They’ve called everyone in their little black book and no one’s home. Two, three in the morning, out of beer and coffee, they open the window to let in some night, and hear radio.
It’s their voices, when they call: dead, or pilled-up bright; hurting to talk to somebody. We don’t need questions to make sense. We don’t need questions at all. When he says, “Open the lines, Jack," these little lights shine…..
by Mark Wagstaff
Mark lives and works in London, which provides the settings to most of his stories. He has self-published two novels, After Work (2001), which was well-received including in Time Out, and Claire (2005). He has also self-published a collection of fourteen short stories, Blue Sunday Stories (2002). Since 1999 he has had a number of short stories published commercially, notably in Writers’ Forum, and in 2004 won second prize in the short story section of the London Writers Competition, with A Single Room.