Contemporaneous: Chapter 20
20. I wake in the morning, grab my phone from my bedside drawer to check the time, and instead find a message from Lana: I just want to say that as somebody who cares for you and loves you, it hurts me whenever you make me feel unwanted, like I’m a burden in your life. It feels like I always have to scrap for your time, and when I’m with you, you’re neither verbally or physically affectionate. We’re more like friends to you it seems. I don’t know why or how it became like this but it’s grown progressively worse over the last year. I regularly wonder where I place…
Just Another Week in Suburbia
Title: Just Another Week in Suburbia Publisher: Pantera Press Publication Date: 2 September 2017 Category: Suburban Noir Paperback: (234x153mm, 330 pages) ISBN Print: 978-1-921997-84-6 Ebook: 978-1-921997-93-8 Casper Gray goes to bed a happily married man. He wakes up questioning whether everything is a lie. Life in suburbia holds few surprises for Casper. He and his wife Jane are still trying for a baby after seven years. His neighbours have their quirks to be navigated. And his job as a high school teacher, while satisfying, comes with its challenges. Every day is much like the one before – that is, until Casper makes a discovery that threatens everything he knows… As…
