Female Tool Kit Blues

Gallantry Loses out as Glory Boy Wins the Smile

Photo by Dmytro Lopatin on Unsplash

“Damn!” I hear the expletive above Schumann on my headphones. Something is bouncing along my commuter train carriage floor. Shuffling Ugg boots enter my eye line. I look up from my Kindle.

“Where’s that…?” The woman sitting opposite, mid-30s, shoulder length blonde hair cupping a pretty but pale, peaky face is scouring…