The flatmate from hell

I’ve been queuing just shy of an hour. It’s utter madness. With the clock ticking closer and closer to midnight it’s beginning to feel like a fruitless task. Do I abandon the queue? I’m at the point w

Christmas was totally cancelled this year. The last thing Tam wanted was to be surrounded by all that jollity and stupid jumpers. She’d been looking forward to Christmas, because the last one had been

LITERALLY no jobs come in over the Christmas period,” Jenna said. Lola Everett looked into her sister’s face, which was like her own but six years younger. “But is that true?” she asked. Jenna had a h

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MARIE-LOUISE left every house she cleaned in tip-top condition. It amazed and horrified her how dirty other people could be. Sometimes she would arrive in one of the holiday homes that she cleaned thr

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com