Blue Monday is a short story about a man who travels to a weird city where time begins to slip away from him.

The idea for Blue Monday came when, during the pandemic, time began to slip away from me. Hours passed in minutes, a day lasted for a year. I was floating - without the anchor of any kind of structure, without a ticking clock in the corner of the room dictating my actions what rule could I live my life by?

Blue Monday started as a research project for my final year of university, Kurt Vonnegut is my favourite author and “Slaughter House 5”, my favourite book and reading about it I came across “Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday” a 1973 novel by Vonnegut. That novel is full of Vonnegut’s Illustrations one in particular is an image of a cow, with a speech bubble with the text “Goodbye Blue Monday”. I fell in love with this image and idea - to dismiss a day, known as the most depressing in the year, was a concept that I loved.

It was in then when I came across the 1944 essay by George Woodcock, “The Tyranny of the Clock”, the anarchical idea that the mechanical clock was a tool, invented as a means of control. The horror in this notion, how absolutely weird this idea is, is what Blue Monday is about.