The Family Unit And Other Fantasies (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
When he stopped being utterly disoriented by the idea, he found that he was afraid in a way he had never been before. (And wasn’t being disoriented a way not to feel afraid, to replace it with a more acceptable emotion? He thought he’d seen a report about that once.) Living isolated for so long had sharpened his perception of any alteration in his routine, even in the routine “aura” of his apartment, yet it had also given him no way to adjust to change, and certainly no way to accept it: there was no explanation that wouldn’t be awful; no one would have broken in with good news, would they? Quickly, surprising himself, he segued to a preservational instinct, a desire to beat back any threat—not to himself but to his “roommate,” a word he had never thought to use even ironically, but one which he now employed to give himself a perceivable “companion” to protect, a conventional sense of someone he could save. The image was invigorating or at least less paralysing than fear.
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