Isolation by Christopher Neilan

This is an excellent short story from Christopher Neilan, who’s previously worked for the producers of Peep Show and The Office. Our protagonist is Andrew, a poet who is going out with Lizzie, the lead singer in a punk band. Lizzie’s not exactly the brightest card in the pack, her brain cells so fried by ecstasy that she struggles to recall who Tom Waits is (not that she ever really knew in the first place). Despite this, success seems to fall into Lizzie’s lap, while Andrew struggles with his art, seemingly dismayed by all the things around him, including Lizzie. This is a dark voyage into Andrew’s isolation, which is buoyed by some great humour, and features a cameo by Pete Shelley from The Buzzcocks. Isolation is a great story – here’s hoping that Christopher Neilan’s unpublished first novel, Abattoir Jack, doesn’t remain unpublished for long, as he’s the greatest writer to have been undone by a sketch featuring a man French kissing a cat!

An extract from the story:

“She pulls the curtains closed, presses play and scampers into the bed next to me, her little white vest so jarring against her stage hair, so girlish. She puts her head down onto my chest (can’t help but like when she does that – makes me feel tall), rubs her hair against my neck. She takes her clothes off under the duvet, flinging them out like a 60s movie star. I love how she does that. I look under the duvet at her nipples, she giggles”.

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