Anah: Sit around and wait for my Dad to finish his research?
Matt: Great holiday…
Anah: It’s not that bad.
Anah: There’s floating in the Dead Sea.
Anah: Oh there’s the Carmel Market…
Matt: They sell camels there?
Anah: Carmel… it’s the name of a market in Tel Aviv.
Anah: The coral reefs in Eilat are amazing!
Anah: Yad Vashem is always humbling… and really sad.
Matt: So Israel is actually cool?
Anah: I think so. Really cool, in fact.
Matt: Maybe we could go one day? You can be my tourist guide.
Anah: Only if you’ll be mine in Barcelona…
Matt: Deal.
Matt: So, how many Matt/ Matthew/ Mathew and Mateo’s are you down to now?
Anah: Well… there was three Matts, thirteen Matthews or Mathews and one Mateo…
Anah: But you’re not Mateo Diaz...
Anah: And you're not Mathew Fletcher...
Anah: And you're not Matthew Cooper.
Anah: So that leaves- Matt Kennedy, Matt Miller and Matt Allen…
Anah: Matthew Sutter, Stein, Porter, Taylor, Pendleton, Carrigan, Meyer and White…
Anah: And, Mathew Klein, Mathew Stahl and Mathew Kinski…
Matt: That’s a lot of guys!
Anah: Well, I’ve taken some of them off the list…
Matt: Like who?
Anah: Well, Mateo… Mathew Fletcher and Matthew Cooper because you said that you’re not them…
Anah: I’m pulling Sutter, Porter, Pendleton, Stahl, Klein and Allen out too.
Matt: So how many of us are left?
Anah: Ummm… hold on a second. I need to write their names down.
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Short StoryWhen Anah Miller, agony aunt to the whole of Hastings Academy, replies to Clueless and Useless' e-mail about his unrequited love, little does she know that's she's opened Pandora's Box. A few days later, when she receives a text from an unknown numb...
6th November 2014
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