Amanda is undoubtedly horrified by how she is behaving, but her urge to put a cigarette out on her husband’s leg comes across as a long-held desire, rather than an out-of-character thought. There is a sense that Amanda is in some sense enjoying her escapades, finally succumbing to her wants and needs with no concern for anyone else.
Naamah is taking her over.Īn encroaching sense of instability propels this slim novella and Gran presents Amanda’s descent in a matter-of-fact manner which makes it all the more terrifying, but she smartly balances the fear out with another, rather unexpected emotion, exhilaration. Amanda mail-orders a book on architecture, but instead she’s sent a volume on demon possession which seems to confirm her worst fears. Naamah promises Amanda that she loves her and will never leave her alone again. She dreams of Naamah, a beautiful demon with whom she wades in seas of blood. Her behaviour is threatening her marriage and her career.Ĭoupled with confusing and unsettling dreams and regular black-outs, Amanda begins to suspect the she may have been possessed by a demon.
Things take a turn for the worse when she skips work to go drinking in dive bars, begins to rack up debt buying clothes she would never usually wear and hooks up with random men for sex. These events are out of character but Amanda can at least rationalise her behaviour. A tapping noise can be heard throughout her home she shoplifts a lipstick without realising, or even wanting it she starts smoking again and befriends a stray dog that has taken to following her home from the train station at night. This unsettling opening is just the beginning of a series of strange happenings that threaten to capsize Amanda’s carefully constructed life. Amanda knows she didn’t write it (although she doesn’t disagree with it), so the question is, who did? He is holding a proposal she left for him the day before, but the innocuous message she left on it has been replaced by an expletive-filled rant revealing her true feelings about him.
So, when she is called into her boss calls her to his office, she is expecting nothing untoward.
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