The Big Issue Man Who Wrote Me a Love Poem - A modern Mills & Swoon romance short by Sarnia de la Maré
Blue Eyes and Beating Hearts. A Mills & Swoon Modern Short. In the polished glass corridors of London’s trendier office districts, there exists a species of woman who has learned to walk quickly. Quickly past coffee queues, cyclists, and, most efficiently of all, quickly past inconvenient human realities wherever her Manowla heels clicked on London's sidewalks. Charlotte Briggs was one of these women. At thirty-five she possessed excellent hair, excellent shoes, and an excellent job in public relations—an industry that specialised in polishing other people’s reputations while quietly eroding one’s own soul. Every morning she stepped out of the tube station, checked her phone, and moved with professional determination toward the gleaming lobby of the agency where she worked. The tall black glass like a judgement on those that could not enter. "Big Issue, madam." Charlotte as usual declined not really sure what the Big Issue was exactly but well aware that sellers were...
