re:mote voices

They'd hid in the bathroom. Mom leaned against the sink while Grandma rested on the toilet and my sister, Nabisase, sat on the rim of the tub. Three versions of the same woman-past, present and future-huddled in one room. With the door partway shut I was unseen and apart from them.

- an extract from The Ecstatic by Victor D. LaValle, which has something which reminds me of Luke Sutherland's Sweetmeat, at least in the lead character. a character who apparently has inherited the family madness, they turn up one day and take him home to help him, but from the extract it seems they aren't all that sane themselves.