“One day, quite suddenly, you realize you are changing.
For me, it began in the middle of a cappuccino, sitting at my regular cafe, in the morning, just before the day became too hot. I sat silently, peaceably at the same table as a stranger. He was staring out over the courtyard, to where the gardener's efforts had ceased and the busy street began.
He was middle-aged, balding, and somewhat overweight: a very plain man, a quiet man, thoroughly unremarkable. Some might even say he was ugly.”
The Change, a long short story, is an exploration of anonymity, objectification and the pleasure of being bought and paid for.
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