Lie List

By Henry Bladon

Certain things are worth looking after. For example, I still have my list of every lie I have ever been told, so I know my mum lied about losing my favorite teddy bear. I also know for a fact that my dad lied about sleeping with that other woman. I happen to know that my brother lied about breaking my phone screen and that my grandma lied when she said thunder was ‘God moving his chairs.’

But then, nobody’s perfect, are they?

After all, I lied when they asked me where a ten-year-old could have got hold of a gun.

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Henry is a writer, poet and mental health essayist based in Somerset in the UK.