The Suburbs of Hell (2015)
“And then one day someone call, a meter-reader p’rhaps, and it come out that old Mrs Thing has been dead for a month, and everybody’s amazed. I tell you what, Arthur, I’m amazed. I dint see a thing. I say to myself, I say: Well, these stoodent types, they’re essentric, they’re happy just playin their guitars and readin books. It was just like that cottage I was talkin about, and me gooin past and givin a wave to the window every now and then, while someone inside was dyin and wouldn’t tell me.’ ‘You can’t be blamed, Harry,’ Arthur said. ‘If his sister-in-law stayed there with him and didn’t notice anything, no one’s going to say that you should have seen more.’ ‘She weren’t to blame, neither,’ Harry said, moodily. ‘Poor girl was kept in the dark, like. We know that now. Paul was that close, he never let on to her that he was worried about his little brother. Funny, innit, how we say “cracked” without thinkin what the word mean? You see, when Greg was a schoolboy he start foolin around ...with this what they call “acid”, and have what they call a “bad crossin”MoreLess
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