Sleep (2015)
“Danny has cheated code on the fencing by topping it with a good two and a half feet of tight-weave trellis, so that all that is visible beyond it are the upper boughs of his neighbours’ own trophy trees and the upper gables of their equally monstrous houses.
In the middle of the yard is one of those circus-sized trampolines that have become the suburban rage, Marcus hovering beside it watching Danny’s two boys show off their acrobatics. He is all angle and bone now, thin as a Holocaust survivor, and as far as David can tell without physical skills of any sort.
David glances at his watch.
“Marcus, don’t just stand there. Jump on!”
David’s mother sits straight-backed and silvern on a padded lounge chair looking as out of place as Marcus does. Not for her the villas of the north, with their deserted sidewalk-less streets, their lunar silence, far from the bustle and grind. David’s father had built a place out here in the first wave of immigrant exodus, but she had sold it within weeks of... his death and moved back to the city.MoreLess
In the middle of the yard is one of those circus-sized trampolines that have become the suburban rage, Marcus hovering beside it watching Danny’s two boys show off their acrobatics. He is all angle and bone now, thin as a Holocaust survivor, and as far as David can tell without physical skills of any sort.
David glances at his watch.
“Marcus, don’t just stand there. Jump on!”
David’s mother sits straight-backed and silvern on a padded lounge chair looking as out of place as Marcus does. Not for her the villas of the north, with their deserted sidewalk-less streets, their lunar silence, far from the bustle and grind. David’s father had built a place out here in the first wave of immigrant exodus, but she had sold it within weeks of... his death and moved back to the city.MoreLess
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