Series · 6 chapters · Ongoing
The Manuscript Room
She reads my pages standing up, which I take as a small cruelty. The radiator ticks. Outside, the wet street is doing its thing without us.
Chapters
- 1
The Inventory
She made me say each one aloud before she would touch me. Not the safe word — that came later, simpler, a small ordinary noun we agreed on like people choosing a meeting place. The inventory came first. The list of what I would let her do, and the list of what I would not, and the harder list in between: the things I wanted but could not yet say I wanted.
- 2
The Threshold of Amaya
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- 3
What Tyrone Knew
Quaerat caput velum tumultus accendo. Calco callide vilitas terminatio comedo correptius comparo subiungo colo. Deinde ulterius ager ultra temperantia vulgivagus.
- 4
Inventory of a Long Mistake
We agreed, in the beginning, that there would be no calendar. Six years later I could tell you the weather of every Wednesday between 2019 and the spring his daughter started school.
- 5
Nice Lantern
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- 6
Re: Re: Re: The Vidal Manuscript
I notice you signed the last one with your first name. I notice I am noticing. The brief was for a professional opinion and I have delivered something else, I think, in the margins.