Surrogate Protocol

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SINGAPORE ISN’T STERILE like everyone says. It’s full of secrets. Take me, for instance. I’m an anomaly and I think the world ought to know this. But I don’t know if it’s a good thing because if the world found out, I’d probably be cut open.

Maybe being cut open is better than hiding in the shadows.

Did you know that déjà vu is prophetic?

I do. I’ve lived long enough to know that déjà vu is a glimpse of an unchanging future, however you live your present. So do yourself a favour and live it well. That’s something I’d offer.

So says Landon Lock.

The old house sits like a crypt; the light from streetlamps filters through the murky panes and floods its interior with a sepulchral glow. Every night he comes home alone and confides to an imaginary interviewer in an imaginary interview he’d want to give if only the world accepted who he is.

Life has been bland but not necessarily bad. He isn’t given to making friends because friends often do more harm than good to his kind. Some old gaffer would stop him on the street insisting they had been acquainted fifty years ago and that it was impossible he should look so young. A hunch would tell him the person was probably right. Still, he would have to walk away.

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