Tagged: previous tenant

When we moved into 14 Corry Vale there was a phone on the landing windowsill. Not a mobile, a proper corded phone, cream-coloured, the kind with the coiled cable gone slack from age. Nobody plugs…

—so I says to her, don't touch the cord, whatever you do, and she looks at me like I've lost it. I hadn't even started the story yet. That's the thing about Priya, she wanted the explanation before…