Add to basket(A short story of 2238 words)
Candyfloss
Crime and Thrillers Literary
by Al McClimens
The automatic sprinkler fizzed and the sauna was re-filled with the scent of Norwegian fjords. More people came in. It got busy. I lay back and tried to recreate the candyfloss but it wouldn’t come so I listened to the drone of inane conversations around me.
They say taxi drivers get to hear a lot of stuff. Maybe they do. But just lie back in a busy sauna with your eyes closed for half an hour and you’ll hear plenty. Dates, dreams and dares. Exes and excuses. Shopping and shagging. Work and wages. Sad really. Half of them don’t even know they’re alive...