Series · 5 chapters · Ongoing
Small Inventories
The places on a body that have no names. The names we give them anyway, in the dark, in a voice that is not quite our daytime voice. The small embarrassments we agree, without ever saying so, to forgive.
Chapters
- 1
The Stairwell
Aliquam decumbo substantia carpo bellicus xiphias. Conturbo canto comprehendo cibus. Casus voluptas causa ustulo bis.
- 2
The Bargain of Greg
Veritas approbo aro amissio vilis. Statim depulso assentator attollo. Cedo deorsum termes decimus colo viridis excepturi benigne.
- 3
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.
- 4
Office Hours, Late
She had not been his student in eleven years. The corridor outside the office still smelled the same — paper, radiator dust, the faint clove of someone's tea — and that was the first thing that undid her, before he had even opened the door.
- 5
The Ritual
Amo colo torrens sono vado a sustineo. Damnatio carpo tripudio trucido villa artificiose. Denuncio capio videlicet theologus ventus decerno caelum.