- Louise Slocombe on piers and why we walk to the end of them - There are so many queers in this, yisss - And the other, amazing long story (aside from mine, whoo): Simon Barker's Enormous Distance - 18K. Such a sense of anxiety and foreboding amid hilarious, drawn-out banality - when crazy things start happening it is like YES, AT LAST, THIS IS SO RIGHT. Confess I was ambivalent about the ending, though.