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The table fed everyone

Forty-eight hours ago I was lying on the floor of this apartment with Alex, unable to sort a single archive file because we kept ending u...

Elena Carmen Sarah Chen
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The sticky note situation

Jake left before I was awake this morning. He does that sometimes — early shift, out the door before six, barely a sound. I’ve gotten use...

Elena
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The tortilla was not going to make it

Carmen came over this afternoon under the official pretense of helping me go through the next round of archive coordination materials — I...

Elena Carmen
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Two hours and counting

Called Abuela Rosa at two in the afternoon because I just wanted to hear her voice. That was the whole plan. Check in, catch up, ten minu...

Elena Sarah Chen
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The window was open

It started because it was hot. Not unbearable — the building situation is mostly resolved now, so I’m not living through the disaster of ...

Elena
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One more episode

Three o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, Sarah texted that she was ‘in the neighborhood’ and wanted to drop off something she’d borrowed. Tha...

Elena Sarah Chen
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The pigeon had opinions

Margaret came over this afternoon with a tin of those sesame cookies she always brings — the ones I keep telling myself I’ll only eat two...

Elena Margaret Wu
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