Toni Le Busque's stories.

In the kebab shop there’s a fish tank. 
In it there’s a sucker-fish, a fish with a mouth where (if it were human) a neck would be.
Excited because we have one at home, I call out, ‘Do you feed it courgette?’ and a kebab-maker turns and looks down at me over the counter, frowning. 
‘Or peas?’ I say, pointing at the tank. 
The kebab-maker keeps staring at me, saying nothing, and I’m starting to feel almost ashamed for having asked, until suddenly he goes, ‘No, sometimes a little tablet.’ 
‘Yes,’ I say, relieved, ‘us too. Sometimes the little tablet.’