Colin Devonshire (@darknovels.bsky.social)

I Fancy A Beer A short dark story, set in Bangkok The air in Bangkok was a physical weight, a wet blanket of heat and exhaust fumes that clung to the skin. Tim, a young man from a drizzly English town, felt it pressing in on him as he left the air-conditioned sanctuary of the hotel lobby. He told Clare he needed cigarettes, a weak excuse, but the need to escape—just for an hour—was a sudden, sharp splinter in his mind. Their holiday, planned with meticulous detail by Clare, was suffocating in its perfection. Every temple, every market, every impeccably reviewed restaurant had been a chore, a box to be ticked. https://darknovels940200135.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/i-fancy-a-beer/