The Surrogate, by Nick Sharman (NEL, 1981). From a charity shop on Mansfield Road, Nottingham. The old man was dying. Shivering, rug-wrapped, his body wasted, the limbs already skeletal. His room was filled with the sweetly nauseating smell of decay.

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