Chair War — France v. Portugal, the Game of Life.

I can hear them from the open window of the apartment, the fans singing — ooing and booing -

the intake of a collective breath held in a second of absolute silence before being expelled in a voovoozela carcophany of whoops, reverberating through the midsummer night. 2–2…

I stand amongst them — a thick crescent of humanity, faces radiant in the glow from…