Wrote this one the week a biometric car-key
story genuinely led UK breakfast television for most of a Tuesday morning,
badly explained by a presenter who plainly didn’t understand his own segment.

It isn’t really about cars, or fingers, or
fish. It’s about how neatly resentment organises itself into a hierarchy the
moment you feel it — there’s always a rung just above to despise, and several
more above that you don’t let yourself look at properly at all. Jacoby notices
everyone’s cruelty except the one he’s sitting inside of.

Read it on Kindle, alongside nineteen other stories

G. H. Schreiber

14/10/2026