Simone Was Right (On the Record)
The episode ended and neither of us said anything for about thirty seconds. That particular silence, the one where everyone is deciding what they actually think before the other p…
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The Part Where We Disagreed About the Ending
It started as a twenty-minute debrief. Simone had texted during the week, one line, no preamble, about the finale of the show we'd both been watching in parallel, meaning separate…
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Wednesday, Which Is Enough of a Plan
The text came in just after six. Not a question, really, more of a notification. 'Tonight?' And somehow that covers it. I'd already changed out of my work clothes, which Simone ha…
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The Shadow Test
September ninth. Simone got a new phone. I know this because she spent the last twenty minutes of our post-climb wind-down not talking about the climb but about what the camera do…
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The Study Session That Wasn't
September fourth. Simone arrived with her course packet, two highlighters, and the confident energy of a person who had made a plan. I had cleared the kitchen table, which felt li…
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The Booth Next to Ours
October eleventh. We weren't planning to stay long. The climbing session had run a little over, Simone had found a hold she kept losing and then finding again, which meant we both…
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The Pasta Experiment (A Crime Scene, Technically)
There is flour in places flour has no business being. I found some on the cabinet door above the stove. I don't know how. I wasn't even near that cabinet. I've been in a strange m…
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