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Fiction

The Man Whose Face Disappeared

What is it like to lose your identity? Find out in this eldritch parable by David Carr.

On the tube home one evening he was observing his reflection morph in the concave window of the carriage. He watched it shrink and then elongate, shrink and then elongate. Sometimes, just to pass the time, he would imagine what the funerals of his fellow passengers would be like. The child opposite might be killed in a car accident while walking the dog, he thought. The parents would be inconsolable as they watched the white coffin, and the dog would be sitting at home moping, waiting for his play friend.

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