At a half-open back door at dusk, an alert Shetland Sheepdog stands on the step with his ears pricked and his mouth open in a bark, facing an empty garden, while a woman of South Asian heritage in her fifties stands beside him with her head tilted, listening hard and hearing nothing.

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Half a Conversation

On the train, the woman across the aisle says loudly, to nobody, “No! … She never! … What, in the caravan?” You edge away. Then she turns her head, and there’s the tiny earbud. You’re only getting half the conversation.

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