Nobody Walks (2015)
“It swam upwards from drains and gutters. It formed pockets of gas in corners, and burst in noxious clouds from cars’ rear ends.
By eight the first swell of workers had flooded the city and the second was gathering force. The underground, arteries hardening, was a wheezing queue of trains in which passengers, squeezed into awkward shapes, counted down the stations of the cross. Bad things could happen on the tube, though few entertained the possibility that disaster would happen to them. They fe...ared, instead, small acts of rudeness and aggression, their own as well as others’, because in the daily anonymous crush it was easy for a grip on the ordinary decencies to loosen. The underground birthed a creature that might turn on itself. There was little need of outside agency.
Among their number this morning, as usual, was a woman whom even the kinder passengers would have difficulty not finding ugly. She was five foot tall and bottle-shaped, not classic Coke but pale ale, straight up-and-down to the neck, with, today, iron-grey hair whose colour matched the aspirin-sized growth that bloomed on one side of her nose.MoreLess
By eight the first swell of workers had flooded the city and the second was gathering force. The underground, arteries hardening, was a wheezing queue of trains in which passengers, squeezed into awkward shapes, counted down the stations of the cross. Bad things could happen on the tube, though few entertained the possibility that disaster would happen to them. They fe...ared, instead, small acts of rudeness and aggression, their own as well as others’, because in the daily anonymous crush it was easy for a grip on the ordinary decencies to loosen. The underground birthed a creature that might turn on itself. There was little need of outside agency.
Among their number this morning, as usual, was a woman whom even the kinder passengers would have difficulty not finding ugly. She was five foot tall and bottle-shaped, not classic Coke but pale ale, straight up-and-down to the neck, with, today, iron-grey hair whose colour matched the aspirin-sized growth that bloomed on one side of her nose.MoreLess
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