The Moneygoround

round, to their tune. The Oxford students hold the £5 note aloft, and chant and laugh and mock at the scuff-scuff scuff of his battered shoes against the High Street concrete as he melts into past dance floors—sticky, heaving, full of women to impress, alcohol slosh-slosh sloshing—his hunger and his humiliation briefly dissolving, before 'now do a twirl!' shifts his focus back to the money and he makes his world go

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Harry Wilding writes in Nottingham, where he fantasises about elaborate heists that steal from the rich and give to the poor. He has had work published by the likes of Popshot, Flash Magazine and Ink, Sweat & Tears.