Cover-Up Story (2012)
“That is, we collided in the cupboard that serves us as a kitchen, poured boiling water into some instant coffee, dredged some biscuits and a jar of meat paste out of an almost forgotten recess, and carried everything into the office to spread out on the desk.
Gerry burbled cheerfully, reading me snippets from the morning papers, and regaling me with his own observations about them. I didn’t mind. It was sheer reflex action on his part. Birds get very narky if you don’t chat them up in the m...orning, and I knew he was so used to this breakfast routine that he hardly noticed it was only me across the desk.
I concentrated on the meat paste, wondering how long we’d had it, and how long it could keep safely. It tasted slightly odd, but that might have been the spices, and there was a faint flavour of cardboard, which was interesting in a product which had been sealed in a glass jar. I spread more on another biscuit. With any luck, I might come down with a first-class case of food poisoning and have to be taken to hospital for a while.MoreLess
Gerry burbled cheerfully, reading me snippets from the morning papers, and regaling me with his own observations about them. I didn’t mind. It was sheer reflex action on his part. Birds get very narky if you don’t chat them up in the m...orning, and I knew he was so used to this breakfast routine that he hardly noticed it was only me across the desk.
I concentrated on the meat paste, wondering how long we’d had it, and how long it could keep safely. It tasted slightly odd, but that might have been the spices, and there was a faint flavour of cardboard, which was interesting in a product which had been sealed in a glass jar. I spread more on another biscuit. With any luck, I might come down with a first-class case of food poisoning and have to be taken to hospital for a while.MoreLess
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