What Happens at Night by Peter Cameron

Author:Peter Cameron
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781948226974
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2020-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

The room was dark and his wife lay asleep on the bed, on top of the coverlet. She had not closed the drapes and so the dark winter light from outside made it possible to see. He stood for a while in the center of the room, watching his wife. Why did he always think she was feigning sleep? Because it was a way of displacing him, keeping him out. Once, not long after they had been married, he dreamed that he was pregnant, and could feel the baby growing inside him, oddly enough not in his belly, but higher up, near his chest, in his lungs. And the next day she had told him that she was pregnant, and he felt certain that that knowledge had passed between them while they were sleeping. So at one point sleep had connected, rather than separated, them.

That was the first, and most heartbreaking, of their several failed pregnancies, and the only one that he had mysteriously intuited.

He drew the curtains and undressed in the dark and lay down beside his wife on the bed. He lay as close as he could to her without actually touching her.

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