If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor

Author:Jon McGregor [McGregor, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780618344581
Google: IyFRsFuf_9gC
Amazon: B003E7ETR6
Barnesnoble: B003E7ETR6
Goodreads: 103345
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

He changes gear.

He says don’t you ever wonder about him?

I say who, he says that guy, in Scotland, don’t you ever wonder?

I say well no, not really.

I think about it, about him and that night, and an image passes through my mind, all skin and teeth and hands, snagging my stomach like a dress caught in a door, closing my eyes.

I imagine knocking on his door, taking that long walk up the steep side of the city and waiting breathlessly outside his house.

I imagine bemusement on his face, delight, embarrassment.

I imagine him standing with one hand on the door and the other on the frame, his body wedged in between, his uncertainty like a pensioner’s doorchain.

I remember the smell of his neck.

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