The man, who it later emerged had lost his family’s savings on a lousy pair of nines, stepped off the ledge of his office window on the 44th floor.

His wife below, suffering a rush of blood to the head, ran forward, arms out. Their last embrace was very brief.

Ross Sayers is a Creative Writing Masters student at the University of Stirling. He got the idea for the story from Placebo’s music video for ‘Pure Morning’.