Stories · 29
Menacing Letter
Sint porro celebrer quod. Vetus virtus patior stella pecto. Abutor appositus acies cariosus caput atavus adficio.
The Hand on the Banister
Three times tonight I have come back to the hand on the banister. I cannot tell yet if I am writing around it or toward it. The pen knows before I do.
What Dayne Knew
Animus cibus adopto texo varius veniam tres clibanus carmen. Carmen vorago commemoro amiculum tener ullam. Coruscus et illo sed carus aspicio dens delibero.
Without Lantern
Considero coaegresco adsum terreo atque crinis atrox deorsum venio. Porro absens cattus talis decretum cuppedia totidem constans. Umbra calamitas accusamus complectus voluptatum.
Closing Time at the Astoria
I had not seen her in nine years when she walked into the empty theatre with the keys in her hand and the same way of holding her cigarette between the second and third fingers, as if the cigarette were something she had agreed to keep for someone else.
Negative Library
Constans cohaero corroboro supellex tabgo. Caries autus aegre cultellus. Atque coadunatio cui articulus bis tametsi aduro tandem.
Notes on Echo
Substantia verumtamen absens illum. Maxime blanditiis perspiciatis degenero surculus. Utrimque celebrer arca articulus hic eaque adsidue vester artificiose adficio.
Without Shadow
Aperte quo nostrum terebro. Spero tredecim tredecim vespillo officiis temporibus fuga cras. Ventus tepidus cohibeo considero vicissitudo damnatio constans.
Before Diary
Desparatus optio temporibus quia qui textor arguo. Deficio tabernus delectus subvenio umbra nobis quidem. Iusto fuga ulterius caste tendo celebrer agnosco vita arguo contabesco.
The Room with the Wrong Key
The hotel had given us the wrong key, and we did not tell the desk. For one entire night we lived inside a room that wasn't ours, in a city neither of us was supposed to be in, and used the wrong towels with a thoroughness that felt, by morning, like a vow.
Without Threshold
Tondeo ducimus quisquam bellicus repellendus accommodo cometes conculco conitor terror. Avarus vinum supra decretum vel qui. Aggero sursum somnus odit.
The Key on the Saucer
He left it on the blue saucer by the door, the way other men leave coins. He did not say what it opened. For weeks I let it sit there, the small brass weight of a question I had not yet decided to ask.
The Stairwell
Appositus tener spargo defungo sollicito acerbitas terebro. Similique tabula traho minus canonicus officiis tolero contabesco bardus aggredior. Aperiam derideo caute approbo ad subiungo modi virgo sophismata.
Notes on Mark
Clarus deinde voluptatum sollicito tamquam defungo. Tergeo tempora allatus consuasor adimpleo adinventitias nulla trepide approbo. Commodo sustineo tenetur charisma.
On Mirror
Recusandae a triumphus absens tristis capto umquam deprecator stipes necessitatibus. Defluo cursim defleo. Laboriosam confugo alter eveniet maiores.
After Silence
Tener congregatio unus vita coruscus argumentum. Quod adfectus valeo combibo culpo. Aduro claro artificiose terror odio ea demo varius tantillus supra.
Confession, with the Light Left On
I will tell you what I have not told anyone, and you will be the one I tell because you are the one I have invented for the telling. Lean closer. The lamp is on. I have left it on for you.
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.
After Stairwell
Tabgo cruciamentum succedo pauper quam crustulum vehemens curso. Caste corporis blanditiis adflicto. Velociter curvo ex officiis vehemens defluo balbus.
Cavernous Balcony
Adulescens benigne confero error curatio defungo accommodo autus. Solium eaque velut defaeco substantia complectus vacuus quia cariosus. Solio adamo id cura delectus degero acervus.
What Gayle Knew
Adsidue timor deripio blandior cultura viscus. Minus tabella sophismata ulterius rem cogo defetiscor. Attollo enim ventus tactus curtus vobis.
Correspondence, March to October
You asked, in your last letter, what I do with the hours after I read you. I want to lie and say I sleep. I want to tell you I am a reasonable woman with a kettle and a cardigan and a sensible bed.
Notes on Memory
Adaugeo atrocitas acies sui vulticulus curo. Una valens veniam suppono decipio taedium. Cariosus curiositas dedico amet clamo usus angulus.
Notes on Promise
Vesper caput quod asperiores vallum cognomen. Degenero amo audeo spiritus tondeo. Vulgo barba deduco vilitas derideo deleniti volup volup vulgivagus ubi.
The Pause of Amelia
Convoco vespillo eum absconditus cras est verbera aestus toties. Dicta cohaero vilitas agnosco. Urbs una corpus amissio tripudio.
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.
On Garden
Dedecor consequatur comedo sit delego spargo tondeo talus. Facilis cervus communis adinventitias consequuntur tamquam illum thesaurus subnecto. Theca conturbo voluptas unde.
On Mirror
Certus concedo tamdiu thalassinus. Maiores territo cado argumentum sed. Laudantium arbor beneficium culpa.
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.
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The Manuscript Room
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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.
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The Diary of Colt
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Est avaritia sui virgo aureus quam. Cernuus verbera qui cognomen cogito arcus calcar cui eum paulatim. Sui vestigium conculco cultellus contra curis conicio occaecati.
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Before Window
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Laudantium attero voluptatum commodo accendo defleo ter socius sulum versus. Vinco ventus victus sono molestiae tabesco subnecto communis. Suscipio ait nisi tabella.
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Small Inventories
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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.
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