Secret Story (2006)
“Pensioners were crowding out of the Empire Theatre, and St George’s Hall offered him nobody among its pillars on the far side of the road. Eventually the rush-hour traffic let him cross into William Brown Street, but he saw nobody alone outside the Walker Art Gallery or the library. Further down the hill a solitary figure in denim was trotting past the museum. It turned the corner at the bottom of the hill, presenting the profile of its chest to him, and even hundreds of yards away he saw it was a girl.
She was following the route he had to take. He should never turn a situation down if it was arranging itself on his behalf. He sprinted downhill to the corner. Alongside the museum, three lanes of traffic raced towards him beneath a concrete flyover and a further one underlined by a catwalk, below which the girl was heading for a six-way intersection overlooked by John Moores University. Some of the roads bore no pedestrian crossings, and the pavements narrowed to little more than ledges.
Write Review:
User Reviews: