The Surrogate
“Every time I saw him I’d feel the same shock at his likeness to Patrick. And soon something began that I’m shocked to think of now.” A short story by Tessa Hadley.
"In a crowd, in a club, you wouldn't have picked him out as particularly good-looking. But in the lecture room, sitting with us in the democratic circle of chairs that he insisted upon, his looks were a power, a force that I felt physically, like velvet against my skin." — a student falls for her lecturer