Note: A series of sixteen related stories, written 2005-2006. According to the author's blog, they are "realistic stories with no fantasy element and no impossibilities. Some scenes are absurdist in nature, but it is only the absurdity of everyday life." It was written specifically for a Welsh publisher, Parthian Books, but never published. This was the intended order of the stories: (1) Betrayal (2) Explosion (3) The Homemade Hookah (4) Scything for Girls (5) Errata of Our Quiet Desperation (6) Dunces and Dragons (7) The Ski Slope (8) Bless my Cholesterol Socks (9) In the Sink (10) Clouds over Tunetown (11) Envy (12) Twenty Six Broken Hearts (13) Last Thursday (14) Suicide: a Beginner's Guide (15) Bald Men in a Shampoo Warehouse (16) Vanishing Some of the stories eventually appeared in The Million Word Storybook (2015).