“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of my life from now on: marginal and grim; my habitual daydreams and memories of our life as a couple reduced to nothing, to stuttering salvoes, by the gunpowder of the simple physical truth of my husband's absence.” LossHusbandMarried Life Book:My Phantom Husband Source: My Phantom Husband
“My husband's disappeared. He got in from work, propped his briefcase against the wall and asked me if I'd bought any bread. It must have been around half past seven.” HusbandBreadOpening Paragraph Book:My Phantom Husband Source: My Phantom Husband
“There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.” SleepVampire Book:My Phantom Husband Source: My Phantom Husband