Amber Phillips

Prompt: His Name Was Sharky - Taken From Episode 08

His name was Sharky. Quite an obvious name for a loan shark, really. I’ll never know how the police didn’t suspect. Maybe his cousin being in charge of the local constabulary had something to do with it.

Sharky was not just a loan shark. He was, quite possibly, the world’s worst loan shark. He never kept track of how much you owed, he always asked people if they’d paid him back and just took their word for it, and he seemed to give out more money than he ever got back. You’d have had more trouble getting money out of a cashpoint. 

Sharky was also my best friend.

Amber is a comedy writer who has written for Newsjack, the Design Spark Podcast and Sketch, Please! Her own podcast ‘The Amber Phillips Comedy Sketchbook’ is available at ambersketchpod.buzzsprout.com