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Fiction

Me, me, me?

Benjamin George Coles finds himself.

So I saw a guy on the bus who looked uncannily like me. Really exactly like me, in fact. I was kind of freaked out. What do you do in that situation? I think if I’d been in a better place mentally, or even just a bit more in the habit of talking to people, I would have approached the guy, remarked on the bizarre extent of our resemblance, maybe asked a few friendly questions. But I happened to be sitting at the back of the bus, and he was near the middle and hadn’t noticed me, and it was easier to just stay put, keep my head down, and stare at him as he got off by the town hall.

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