Cull by Tanvir Bush

Author:Tanvir Bush [Bush, Tanvir]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783525942
Publisher: Unbound
Published: 2018-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Night of the Drunken Poet

The Poet, real name Gunter Gorski, is drunk. He is also sulking, and really, who could blame him? Yet another dinner party with his wife’s tedious friends and her terrifying father. He wants to be writing, alone, somewhere cold and harsh and open to the skies. He has been working through an idea, a dream he had following that extraordinary encounter with the blind woman, Alex, whom he can’t seem to get out of his head. He has been trying to weave a poem around illusion, blurring, obfuscation.

He knows in his heart that his writing is wilting beneath the weight of his marriage. His wife is very attractive, extremely intelligent – and as compassionless as a dry glass. And the sex is boring. Her ambition vaults high over his head and his hard-on. They had sex this morning. Or rather, she jerked him off with one hand while talking to her office on her mobile phone. He had playfully tried to pull the handset from her grasp, and she had scowled at him, then pushed him down flat on the bed and finished him off as if milking an upended goat, all without pausing in her conversation about Prime Minister’s Questions. Then, still talking on the phone, she had walked with her sullied hand held out to one side across to the en suite bathroom. He had heard her flick his spunk into the toilet. Someone down the line said something funny, and she had laughed like a girl.

He sucks up another warm, kind throb of brandy, direct from the bottle, and closes his eyes. They have been married for nearly eight years, both on their second marriages. He has a teenage daughter in Australia, Mandy, whom he hasn’t seen for nearly two years now. His current wife, Stella, can’t have children, but the Poet thinks she has never been the broody type. Stella Binding MP, daughter of the internationally renowned Dr Barnabas Binding, is on the rise. It would, as a politician, have been an excellent PR coup to have children to parade around like the prime minister does, but Stella has instead opted for the ‘triumph of spirit over adversity’ media angle. ‘Her blue eyes are perfectly complemented by her elegant aquamarine shirt dress,’ writes the interviewer from Her! magazine, ‘but she won’t be drawn when I ask about children. She merely takes a sip of coffee and gives me a courageous smile.’

‘Gunter?’ Her shout comes from downstairs. There is an edge of irritation in it. ‘Hurry up. Daddy will be here in a minute.’

Ahhh, thinks Gunter, The Good Doctor Binding. An interesting case of endearing psychopathy. Gunter’s own father and grandfather had both been academics in the field of medicine. His father had worked as a consultant to the Jagiellonian University’s neuroscience unit. For his grandfather, however, there had been another, darker story.

Gunter’s grandfather had been based in Lwów University in the late 1930s. Very bad timing for an ambitious Jew. One dark

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