One By One in the Darkness (2013)
“It was birds in flight; it was columns of midges like smoke in a summer dusk. It was grey water; it was a mad wind; it was a solid stone house where the silence was uncanny.
Cate was going home.
She woke early this morning. Not surprisingly, she’d been sleeping badly in recent weeks, and she lay now for more than an hour thinking about her family. She liked to imagine them still asleep, each of the three women lying in the warm darkness of her own room: Helen in her house in Belfast, Sa...lly and her mother at home in the country. Later, when Cate rose and moved about her flat making coffee and preparing her luggage for the journey, she thought of her family waking. Helen would stretch out her hand and switch on the radio, would lie there drowsing and listening to classical music. Sally would go downstairs, and, still in her dressing gown and sleepy-eyed, would stare blankly at the cloudy sky while she waited for the kettle to boil. She would make tea, and bring it upstairs to her mother’s room.MoreLess
Cate was going home.
She woke early this morning. Not surprisingly, she’d been sleeping badly in recent weeks, and she lay now for more than an hour thinking about her family. She liked to imagine them still asleep, each of the three women lying in the warm darkness of her own room: Helen in her house in Belfast, Sa...lly and her mother at home in the country. Later, when Cate rose and moved about her flat making coffee and preparing her luggage for the journey, she thought of her family waking. Helen would stretch out her hand and switch on the radio, would lie there drowsing and listening to classical music. Sally would go downstairs, and, still in her dressing gown and sleepy-eyed, would stare blankly at the cloudy sky while she waited for the kettle to boil. She would make tea, and bring it upstairs to her mother’s room.MoreLess
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