Emre Alex Aslan is a writer based in London, born to Turkish immigrant parents. His fiction is concerned with loneliness, domestic spaces, and the ways places absorb the people who pass through them. “Tenancy” is his first published story.
Every surface I’d touched seemed to flinch from me, like I’d done something wrong. Then the drip came back. One. Two. I sat on the kitchen floor and cried, and it wasn’t because the dripping came back, it was because…