Everything's Fine

The Perfect Life: Chapter Eight

Surrendered Threnodies

The phone rang like some heaven-sent gift of distraction and Jamie leapt away from the blank screen of his laptop with the wild-eyed alacrity of a man unexpectedly paroled in the middle of weaving his twentieth mailbag of the morning.

‘Hi, hello…please be a real caller and not just a call-centre, because I really need something else…