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The Ninety-Day Summary

October ninth. I did not intend to open the spending tab. I was looking for the loyalty points screen, there's a reward tier thing I've been vaguely tracking, and I pressed the wr…

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What the Windowsill Already Knew

September twenty-eighth. I put the cord on the windowsill because I didn't know where else to put it. That was the whole reason. I'd tied it off, held it for a minute, and then se…

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Slightly Apart

September seventeenth. I didn't put it there on purpose. That's the thing I keep coming back to. The cord was finished, I had tied it off, and I needed to set it down, and I put i…

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The Date Passed

September sixth. The print sale at the framing shop was last weekend. I know this because Simone told me about it in August, and I put it in my calendar with the particular optimi…

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Fourteen Minutes

August twenty-sixth. My grandmother called at seven-fifteen, which is when she always calls, because she has called at seven-fifteen on Friday evenings for as long as I can rememb…

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Nothing Has to Happen Next

August fifteenth. The cord has been sitting on the counter since I tied it off last month. I haven't moved it. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for, maybe just to see what it looks l…

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The Honey Jar Situation

August fourth. The market has been running every Saturday since late May and I keep meaning to go earlier and keep arriving around nine-thirty when the good tomatoes are already h…

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The Fourth Row

July twenty-fourth. There was no particular reason to pick it up today except that it was Sunday and the light was doing that specific late-afternoon thing it does in July, the wa…

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Long Enough to Have a Shape

July thirteenth. At some point this afternoon the cord got long enough that I could hold up one end and the rest of it didn't just fall in a heap, it hung with a little logic to i…

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Simone Was Right (She Usually Is)

July second. The argument started somewhere around four in the afternoon and did not technically end, because Simone left for a prior thing and I stayed on my side of the table wi…

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