He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the headboard, or a dark shape dissolving in soap. As a net is no more than holes tied together, they were bonded by what was no longer there.

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel (ed. Hogarth, 2013) - ISBN: 9780770436414