Short Story: Old Hat / by Benjamin Power
Old Hat Before setting off for Colorado’s ill fated ‘rescue mission’, Ali asked me to bring him back a present. He asked me to buy him, with my own money, some type of extravagant animal pelt, to add to his collection of elemental protection devices flayed from dead rare exotic wild creatures and scattered tastefully around his Docklands penthouse flat. This would not have got through customs, for good reason. Disregarding the ironic ambiguities of that last sentence, knowing