Madness (2013)
“I go in. The main bedroom upstairs has large windows overlooking mature oak and silver birch trees. The kitchen is old and the carpet is bile-green shag but the living area is big enough for books and music with adequate wall space for etchings and linocuts, posters and paintings and photographs. There’s a spare bedroom for friends and a separate toilet and a courtyard with high walls covered in ivy.
I turn up to the auction alone, wearing old track-pants and a bright orange, crocheted beanie. At the end of the auction the apartment is passed in, but I’m the highest bidder so we enter ‘negotiations.’ The estate agent trips back and forth between the owners and me.
‘You must be so nervous!’ she says, standing well inside my personal space, breathing fast. ‘I’m nervous, and it’s not even going to be my new home.’ I frown.
She smiles, red lips and teeth.
‘There are more important things,’ I say.
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