What's wrong with you? The man says, keys clutched in his hand.

Welcome to the Happy Place Book Club with me Fern Cotton.

He stole her spare keys.

Today, The Husbands by Holly Grimazzio.

Maybe he logged in to her computer and changed her phone remotely and that's why his picture's on her lock screen.

Is that possible?

Fuck sake, he says, go and sit down please he turns off the light on the stairs and

switches on the landing light instead the big square landing with all the rooms

leading off it the big gray landing she passes

through a dozen times a day, which is somehow blue. And it has a rug. It never had a rug before. Why is there a rug?

She can't stop to look. The man's walking towards her.

She backs across the rug, which feels thick and soft even through her shoes towards the door to the living room.

It's right above Toby in Mariam's bedroom.

If she screams, she thinks they'll hear.

But even in the dark, on the switch, click.

Light falls on more strange objects.

The sofa is dark brown, and surely when she left this morning it was green.

The clock on the wall has Roman numerals instead of normal numbers and it turns out Roman numerals are difficult to read.

7, 15, 11.

She has to squint to stop them from blurring.

Her old vase on the shelf has tulips in it, her wonky

lino print of an owl is gone. The books are wrong or in the wrong place. The curtains have

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