NO ONE ASKED
I say without meaning.
It is late. The rest of my home is silent. All the sound and activity concentrated in one room. Above my head, the light fitting has captured dead moths in the bowl of there is frosted glass. Inside there is a light bulb, a fragile glass shell, and a glowing filament. People often use light bulbs to represent ideas. Not me. My thoughts begin as pencil marks on a white page, soft abstract outlines. Slowly the lines grow clearer and acquire light and shade, depth, and clarity.
"I have never met the killer," I say, turning my chair towards Blanche, "but suddenly I feel as though the assassin has sprung from within my mind, flesh and blood, with a voice that echoes in my e