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Midnight Table
3:47 AM
The hour has a different quality of dark. Not the late dark, which still carries residue of evening, and not the early dark, which already a...
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Fiction Booth
The Photograph
Among his papers, after, we found a photograph of a woman none of us recognised. She was young — younger than we ever knew him. She stood in...
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Debate Table
The Trouble with Certainty
Every person I have known who was absolutely certain they were right about the important things has turned out, in time, to have been wrong...
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Quiet Table
Before the City Wakes
The window holds a grey rectangle of almost-morning. Somewhere below, a bus changes gear. My coffee cools faster than I drink it, which is a...
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Poetry Counter
Portrait of a Stranger
I caught my reflection in a shop window this afternoon and did not recognise the man looking back. Not for three full seconds. He seemed old...
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Poetry Counter
The Last Light on Briar Street
She left the key under the mat, the way she always had. The door still knew her — creaked twice, then settled into silence. The kitchen smel...