Gil Hates Everything

1. A hardworking cop is psychologically manipulated into killing himself by a thief.

2. You are eight years old and your emotionally-absent father hires a woman off the street to sing to you about how fun it is to drink cough syrup.

3. A woman loses her sister in a horrific construction accident and is persecuted by the niece of the homeowner and her needy gang.

4. A white woman decides she knows better than the local indigenous leader.

5. A basement-dwelling stalker gaslights a young woman while destroying light fittings.

6. The only financially-successful member of a group of college friends finds himself funding them in life and death.

7. Rural townsfolk conspire to see an innocent man murdered and his killer happily married.

8. In the wake of a mass kidnapping, fourteen people get married.

9. A woman insists on trying everything twice while giving you the feeling she should be green.

10. A disobedient mutant traumatizes a schoolteacher.

11. Someone’s granny dies in the middle of a power cut, and honestly that’s about it.

12. A girl gets kicked in the head by a horse before going abroad.

13. A hundred and twenty months collide headon but there’s only one casualty.

14. A woman sees dead people in three different time zones.

15. A bunch of kids are interrogated over trivia by adults, which one of them finds curiously stimulating.

16. People who go up and down a lot get grabbed by people who aren’t there.

(originally posted June 19, 2022)