Ghosting by Jonathan Kemp

Author:Jonathan Kemp [Jonathan Kemp]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908434074
Publisher: Myriad Editions
Published: 2014-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

DAY SIX

THE FAINT SOUND of knocking pulls her out into the conscious day. Feeling as if her eyes have been put in the wrong way, she climbs off the bed and flounders to the door. ‘Hello?’ she says without opening the door.

It’s Linden. Grace suddenly remembers the arrangement they’d made the previous evening. Not wanting her to see that she slept in her clothes, she speaks through the door.

‘I’m sorry, love, I’m not feeling too bright today; do you mind if we postpone the modelling?’

‘Fine, no problem,’ says Linden. ‘Call me when you’re feeling better.’

Grace makes her creaky way to the sink, wondering what happens to the dreams people don’t remember. Do they return to the deep, to resurface at another time? Or do they die, disintegrate, return to nothing?

Ignoring the dishes piling up, she runs a glass of water, and swallows a Valium. Then she drops back into bed, pretending not to notice the mouldering teacups and encrusted plates she’s let pile up around her since Gordon’s departure.

If I stay in this room long enough, maybe I’ll become mouldy too.

Jungled in the duvet, she maps the sequence of light changes inside the room through her eyelids, lost in a not-quite-sleeping reverie.

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