Drowning Rose (2011)
“My mother, having got hold of a copy somehow, phoned to say that she thought the new haircut was flattering but that she did not quite see why I had felt the need to dye it black. As I had not had a haircut nor had my hair coloured I was as much at a loss as she was.
Uncle Ian was happy. He Skyped, having read it online. As I listened to him talk all about the way my life seemed to be taking off I felt happy; Frankenstein could not have been more proud of his monster than Uncle Ian was of me. H...e finished the conversation by saying that Rose was as pleased as he was. That unsettled me all over again. I couldn’t make sense of it, the way he seemed completely rational in every way but for this insistence that he spoke to Rose. I had asked Katarina about it. She said that in her view there were more things between heaven and earth. I had felt she could have tried to come up with something a little more helpful and anyway she’d got the quote wrong. Because I was annoyed I told her. ‘I think it’s “in”, actually.MoreLess
Uncle Ian was happy. He Skyped, having read it online. As I listened to him talk all about the way my life seemed to be taking off I felt happy; Frankenstein could not have been more proud of his monster than Uncle Ian was of me. H...e finished the conversation by saying that Rose was as pleased as he was. That unsettled me all over again. I couldn’t make sense of it, the way he seemed completely rational in every way but for this insistence that he spoke to Rose. I had asked Katarina about it. She said that in her view there were more things between heaven and earth. I had felt she could have tried to come up with something a little more helpful and anyway she’d got the quote wrong. Because I was annoyed I told her. ‘I think it’s “in”, actually.MoreLess
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