The Fahrenheit Twins by Michel Faber

Author:Michel Faber [Faber, Michel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781443401593
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2005-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

When Christine returned home, the sound of the baby’s screaming was leaking through the four walls of the house like a muted fire siren. She looked at her neighbours’ houses on either side; there was no sign of life. Perhaps there were women in those houses; perhaps not. Perhaps there were even women with babies. The curtains were drawn, opaque as the ozone layer separating earth from space.

Christine opened the door of her own little house and let herself in. The screaming was instantly much louder, of course: there were different acoustic principles operating on this side of the threshold.

She walked straight over to her baby’s cot. He was purple from shrieking, and smelled of sewage. It was not his normal bad smell, but something aggressively more evil.

Christine began to undress him, but the stink pierced her sinuses like a needle-thin skewer. Her baby’s eyes bulged as he screamed, as if in outrage at her idiocy in imagining she could make things better for him. Christine refastened the press-studs on his jumpsuit, sealing up the poisonous nappy while she considered what to do.

She picked her baby up and held him above her head, high above her head. She stared up at him.

His body was a black mass against the electric light bulb, a squirming eclipse of this indoor sun. She held him there for a long time, staring up at his dark howling face and his loose broken limbs dangling so close to her face.

Then, with all her strength, she threw him across the room, bouncing him off the wall with a plasticene thud.

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