The Magpies

You’re mad. Rats don’t try and get in through closed doors!

And soon they would be living together. They would be sharing a bedroom and he would live with her fragrance – as part of the background of his life – every day. Breath and hair and skin and sweat and all the atoms and particles

lay just beneath the surface of consciousness, jagged thoughts and dark music looping inside his head, preventing him from sinking into deeper sleep, where he wanted, and needed, to be.

In cities, after all, you are always within screaming distance of a psychopath.

You know what HTML really stands for? How to meet ladies.

She was both his compass and his map, and he would be lost on his own. Lost in the darkness.

Lemsip for her. While waiting for the kettle

cities, after all, you are always within screaming distance of a psychopath.

strength from her. He honestly didn’t know what

As soon as Kirsty walked into the living room, just behind Jamie, she knew something was wrong. There were no immediate tangible signs, but she could feel it. The atmosphere in the room felt wrong. There had been a shift in the air, a strange shape imprinted on the molecules that hung around them and made up the fabric of the room. She could smell it, this unwelcome odour. She felt like an animal, its hackles rising as it caught the scent of a stranger, an invader, an enemy encroaching on its territory.

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