Back Shelf Life
Chapters (39)
  1. Cover
  2. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Shelf Life
  6. 04/01/2016
  7. 6 EGGS
  8. SANDWICH BREAD
  9. DIET COKE
  10. TAMPONS
  11. APPLES
  12. SUGAR
  13. DEO
  14. COTTON WOOL
  15. PIZZA
  16. WHOLE CHICKEN
  17. SPAGHETTI
  18. SOUP
  19. TOMATOES
  20. TEABAGS
  21. AFTERSHAVE
  22. WHITE WINE
  23. PRAWNS
  24. OLIVES
  25. MOBILE TOP-UP
  26. STRAWBERRIES
  27. HONEY
  28. MOISTURIZER
  29. DATES
  30. FLOWERS
  31. CONDITIONER
  32. SINGLE CREAM
  33. PULSES
  34. STEAK (LEAN)
  35. BLEACH
  36. SOME KIND OF PUDDING
  37. A Girl
  38. 11:09 04/01/2017
  39. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

people do a lot of stuff

for a laugh

wouldn’t be the first

or the last

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:06

what, to laugh …

at you? baby …

i’m sorry

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:06

well yeah

i guess

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:06

ruth what happened

with alanna?

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:10

nothing she just

sometimes

she makes me feel

like such a joke

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:11

it’s ok

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:11

shes my friend

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:11

what do you mean?

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:12

she said she told u

to leave me your number

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:12

well you know that’s not true.

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:13

but how do i know

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:13

she said u asked

her about me bc

u think i’m funny-looking

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:14

it’s true I asked about you.

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:15

she said u think

i’m like a little mouse

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:15

like u think

i’m funny-looking

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:17

you’re little

not like a mouse, maybe

like a little bird.

pretty little bird

a bluebird

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:17

pretty

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:18

that’s a really weird

thing to say

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:20

a bluebird

you can hold in

the palm of your

hand, feel its heart

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:21

bluebirds sing

beautifully

when they’re

alone

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:21

that’s even weirder

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:23

i can relate to that

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:25

look, no kidding,

it’s true, i asked alanna

about you

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:25

if you need to know

the reason why I asked

alanna out is you

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:26

why should i believe that

you slept with her

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:30

for two weeks in Rome

i’d seen you, i couldn’t

get you out of

my head 1/2

i was losing my mind 2/2

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:32

yeah right

u couldn’t keep it

in your pants

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:35

look it isn’t like that

she came

on to me

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:37

that’s not what she said

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:40

she talks a bunch doesn’t

she, don’t you wish

she’d ever shut up?

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:41

look I was just

in work and she

begged me

to take her out

she wanted to

have fun

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:42

she could’ve come out

with me in that case

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:45

she said she was

bored, she wanted to

go out, get pissed

have fun

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:46

i said tbh when

in Rome you should

make the best of it

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:48

… like sleep with you

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:50

no silly. like go out

with you. i was trying

to convince her

i told her that.

but she made me 1/2

go to the shops she

said if i didn’t she’d

give me a bad review

and so … 2/2

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:51

she’s not like you

FROM: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:52

u still didn’t have to

have sex with her

TO: RUTH BEADLE

02/07/06 — 01:53