mostly david ephgrave

I’ve come to the conclusion that the loneliest person in my home town of Hitchin is the man who runs Carpetright. The store has been there for as long as I can remember. I used to walk past it every day when I was a student, as my drama school was on the opposite side of the road - and even though it’s been on my radar for all of this time, I can count the amount of customers I've seen in there on the fingers of one finger. What makes it worse is the store is massive; encased in a wall of windows on two of its four sides. It screams the fact it’s empty; they only need a couple of lizards and a tumbleweed to make the illusion complete. Maybe it's a Mafia front; they'd certainly have plenty of material to dispose the bodies in. They’ve only ever had one member of staff, whose desk is situated at the rear of the store; brightly lit and in full view of the outside world. It’s no wonder people seldom go in there; c overing the...