Throat

Excerpt from my flash fiction and poetry collection LUNCHBOX, which will be published on the 14th February 2026.

I met Ian Watkins three times.

The first time was in 2000, when his band played a tiny local venue. It was the tour for their first album, which my friends and I loved.

I wondered why he spoke with an American accent when he wasn’t American.

I assumed it was to hype people up, as though he was all the way from America, or simply inflections he had learnt f…