Reading Room - The Flat by DVS

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This weekend's Reading Room is The Flat by DVS, as suggested by gilda_elise. *g* If you haven't read it yet, it's here:
Online Circuit Archive
Hatstand Archive
ProsLib DVD
To Friends zine (Chained-to-the-Typewriter Press, 1993)

Doyle meets an old friend from his "art school" days, and his life is never the same again. I have to say that The Flat is a favourite re-read of mine. It's not on my "regular" re-read list, but it's one that every now and then I think oh yes! I like the story, the characterisation, the atmosphere of it - the lads are very much the lads, for me, which means that I believe what the author wants me to believe (even the odd un-Brit things, such as Doyle yanking the kettle flex out of its socket to turn off the kettle - nooo, don't do that Doyle! We don't have the kind of sockets that make that okay! Just use the switch... *g* But everything else is so good that I can even skim past that and put it down to a moment's irrationality, like when he throws books hither and yon in the eps. *g*)

I was up way too late working last night - well, 4.30am - so I'm late this morning, and I've been roped into helping with the raffle at the village show and have to leave now, so I'm just going to say...

...so, what did you think? Believable? Our lads? Can you see the start/middle/ending of the story? *g*