Fish

They told me that I should not leave. That I was a big fish only in my small, provincial, seaside town and that I would be eaten by the bigger fish were I to move to Bristol. I didn’t tell them that I would only stay in Bristol long enough to prepare my move to London. Or that the size to which a fish could grow was limited by the size of its pond and that I did not intend to stay a small, provincial, seaside fish.