Nobody plans to notice their sofa. It’s furniture. It sits there, holds you up, occasionally swallows a phone charger. And then one day the cushions come back from a proper clean, you walk into the living room, and something feels different in a way you can’t immediately name. The room looks brighter. Emptier, somehow, in […]

There is a very specific kind of heartbreak that comes from a cup of tea. One second you are holding a warm, comforting mug and feeling like a functional adult. The next, a brown arc is spreading across your favourite shirt, the sofa cushion, or the pale carpet you swore you would keep nice this […]