The Earrings Said Go
Tuesday night. That specific category of Tuesday night where you've already changed out of your work clothes, you're in the leggings, the couch has begun to make its case, and the…
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Seventeen Tabs and Nothing to Show For It
The original plan was that Simone was going to show me one thing. A single review. She'd seen it earlier and thought I might find it useful, which, fair, I have mentioned that my…
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Three Blocks and a Round Trip
The morning had a whole plan. Run first, then coffee, then the community center errand I'd been putting off since Thursday. I was dressed, I had my bag, I was out the door at a re…
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The Fridge Did Not Need My Keys
It was the end of a long shift and my brain had clearly punched out about forty minutes before my body did. I was at the break room counter, coat on, bag on shoulder, ready, and I…
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Rigid Hedgehog, Four Hours, No Notes
The text went out at around eight-fifteen. I was trying to ask Simone something about the weaving class, specifically whether she knew if the third session used a different warp s…
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Fourteen Bags, Three Flights, One Complaint (From My Arms)
My neighbor knocked around ten in the morning with that specific look people have when they've just arrived from a large grocery run and immediately regretted their optimism. Four…
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First Try, No Witnesses Except the Pothos
The container was the last one in the cabinet and I was fully prepared for the lid to be the wrong lid, the lid from a different container that lives in a drawer somewhere and has…
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The Index Cards Were Color-Coded. I Brought Chips.
There was a quiz. A real one, the kind with a sheet, a deadline, a posted date that I had been aware of for three weeks and had been treating as someone else's problem until forty…
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The Verdict Was In Before I Finished Getting Ready
The earrings were not a plan. I put them on the way you do something without deciding to, grabbed them off the bathroom shelf because they were there, because it was a Tuesday and…
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Unexpected Item
The machine said it four times. Unexpected item in the bagging area. The item, each time, was my hand. Not a bag, not a watermelon, not something ambiguous, my hand, which I was u…
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