Sublime

He has black eyebrows and black hair on the back of his hands.

Don’t drop a bollock, Charlie, she’s fond of saying,

like any good crisis point it forces Michael to confront his earlier actions.

How’s tricks in the sticks,

Quite a strange man, thought James, watching him go – but what a relief to discover he still contained the capacity to be taken by surprise.

Hitchcockian protagonist,