Mr Salary

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all.

Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around me, as if death was more of a miracle than life was. I was a cold customer. It was too cold to think of things all the way through.

About Faber Stories

These cells may look fairly normal, but they are not.

Why not? You’re in love with me, aren’t you?

Infamously.

I thought of saying: I don’t want to go back to Boston. I want to live here with you. But instead I said: Put the sound back on if you’re watching it, I don’t mind.

as if death was more of a miracle than life was.

Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that.

Everything was normal that quickly.

I loved to be rewarded with laughter.