Ernst was increasingly becoming a social isolate. He had lived in his large three-bedroom maisonette for nearly quarter of a century. Gradually the people he knew were dying. Most notably Ian who had died earlier in the year. Whilst he and Ernst had never been lovers, they had been first friends, and later companions, for…

Warmth is a strong emotion. The layers of belonging, the physical, emotional and basic sensory heat enfolding me. The joyful sense of completeness and achievement stretching out with a long finish, a note held by an orchestra where the strings take up that haunting long finishing note, gently rising, one from another, or perhaps a…