No True Echo (2015)
“It was a long time ago but I could still remember how all those awful feelings would drift away as I passed out. It was the only way I knew how to control it. Now, here I was in a version of my life in which Melody had not died. But if she had never died, then this was no grand reunion. It was just an ordinary rainy Thursday afternoon. It was the strangest feeling ever. Standing outside the door, key in hand, I heard her voice for the first time and was surprised about how real it sounded. And ...how angry. ‘You could have burned the whole bloody house down, you batty old woman!’ I opened the door and saw a discarded pair of shoes and coat in the hall. My mother stood in the doorway to the living room, with her back to me. ‘Don’t be melodramatic,’ said Ruby, shielding her eyes from the light. ‘You’re calling me melodramatic? That’s a joke.’ Melody spat the words at Ruby, who was lying listlessly on the sofa, half watching the quiz show. I closed the door loudly but my mother did not turn.MoreLess
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