Sublime

‘You’re our longest-serving contributor,’ said Carleton, flinching at the bang. ‘Our most admired. Indeed I should say our most popular.’ I’m beginning to speak like him, he thought: Thomas Hart is catching, that’s the trouble. ‘I’ve often heard it said that it’s a consolation – that’s the general feeling, as I said to the board – to wake on

allow people to indulge their own

turpitude.”

It’s all just a game. A big, freaky, wonderful game. Which is fine, because the trickster likes freaky. Freaky is his natural environment.

waited until Martine was out of sight before allowing myself to collapse into a parenthesis.

‘Dorian Gray’.