Torch (2012)
“An oven hulked in the middle of the room, detached from everything, and a gathering of objects sat in the corner: a rolled rug with gnarled tassels, a chair from the bar downstairs that was missing a leg, a box taped shut that had Mardell’s writing on it: Christmas things. On the wall hung a perfect mirror. Joshua held his lighter up to it. His face was ghoulish in the yellow slash above the flame, so much so that he scared himself and had to turn away. His thumb grew hot, but he kept it presse...d down on the little button of the lighter anyway as he walked around the apartment on that first night. From then on, he brought candles.
After sleeping undetected for seven nights in the apartment, Joshua decided it was safe to change one thing. By then his mother was in the hospital, so he could have gone home—being home no longer entailed having to hear his mother’s comings and goings throughout the night, her cries and moans and suffering—but he’d begun to prefer the apartment over anywhere else.MoreLess
After sleeping undetected for seven nights in the apartment, Joshua decided it was safe to change one thing. By then his mother was in the hospital, so he could have gone home—being home no longer entailed having to hear his mother’s comings and goings throughout the night, her cries and moans and suffering—but he’d begun to prefer the apartment over anywhere else.MoreLess
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