The Uninvited

The French term un acte manquédescribes a form of self-sabotage wherebythe unconscious sets about wrecking – forwhatever reason – what the conscious hasbuilt. Could it be that one version ofSunny Chen sabotaged Jenwai whileanother turned a blind eye? And that whenhe’d returned to normal and seen what‘they’ had done, he’d panicked and feltsuch remorse that his only recourse wassuicide?Mental breakdown explains bothChen’s suicide and the uncharacteristicbehaviour that preceded it. That’s the slantI’ll use in my report, to explain his arrivalin the Ziploc bag. For now, it’s the closestI’ll get to the true answer.But if the Sunny Chen case were a pieceof origami I would flatten out the creases,