The PhD Office

You’re not usually last minute when it comes to your PhD work, but this term, you’ve been forced into pulling an all-nighter. The usually deserted postgrad study office would’ve been the perfect place to focus… If the best friend of your toxic ex hadn’t wandered in hoping to do the same.

You used to get on really well, but he abruptly stopped speaking to you even before the breakup, and you still don’t know why. It’s past midnight, the doddery, broken radiators won’t stop blasting, and - in every sense of the word - your exchanges are getting very heated, too.