“I’ve been in the underheated waiting room for nearly two hours. Standard institutional chic—puke-coloured lino, plastic wood chairs bolted to the floor, posters curling away from tatty pinboards, and a vending machine I can’t use because the change in my pocket comes to less than a euro.  A smell of plastic and overcooked vegetables coming through the vents, and a sub-audible electrical drone that I can feel rather than hear.  Who’d have thought it? Thirty-two years old, a background like mine, and this is my first time in a police station.” From ‘Catfish Alley’ – included in the showcase