When Will There Be Good News?
“His mother, his father, his brother. They were all dead so Jackson knew he must be too. They were vague round the edges and if he tried to look at them for too long they started to wobble and fade. He supposed he was vague round the edges too.
The catalogue of the dead seemed full of random choices. His old geography teacher, an antagonistic, apoplectic sort who had a fatal stroke in the staff room. Jackson's first ever girlfriend, a nice straightforward girl called Angela who died of an aneury...sm in her husband's arms on her thirtieth birthday. Mrs Patterson, an old neighbour who used to sit drinking tea and gossiping with his mother when Jackson was small. Jackson hadn't thought about her in decades, would have been hard put to name her if she hadn't turned up at his bedside, smelling of camphor and carrying an old leatherette shopping bag. Julia's sister, Amelia, came once (as recalcitrant as ever) to sit at his bedside. He wondered ifher presence meant that she had died on the operating table.MoreLess
The catalogue of the dead seemed full of random choices. His old geography teacher, an antagonistic, apoplectic sort who had a fatal stroke in the staff room. Jackson's first ever girlfriend, a nice straightforward girl called Angela who died of an aneury...sm in her husband's arms on her thirtieth birthday. Mrs Patterson, an old neighbour who used to sit drinking tea and gossiping with his mother when Jackson was small. Jackson hadn't thought about her in decades, would have been hard put to name her if she hadn't turned up at his bedside, smelling of camphor and carrying an old leatherette shopping bag. Julia's sister, Amelia, came once (as recalcitrant as ever) to sit at his bedside. He wondered ifher presence meant that she had died on the operating table.MoreLess
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