Chapter 1: Cute Guys and Open RelationshipsOswald Sattle gazed out the windscreen of his Toyota Camry—a sorry sight. Both the car and the view. How fitting.
Cracks melted into a spider web on the asphalt before him, the tenement houses to his left were a soulless grey, and the shop in the bottom floor of the last house in the row made him long to turn the key and keep on going. He should keep going. Why he’d come here, he didn’t know.
The morning was damp and dull, the leaves in the process of turning orange, and Oswald had been fighting to breathe for two hundred and seventy-three days.
Two hundred and seventy-three days ago Oswald had been the happiest he’d ever been, happier than he’d ever expected to be…and now he was here. In Nortown.
In one second, everything had changed. One slo
