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Midnight Table
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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...
Midnight Table
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The Night Shift
The city looks different from five in the morning. Arden had worked nights for eleven years and was never fully accustomed to it — the mild...
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The House at the End of Summer
The house had been in the family for three generations, which meant it had accumulated the kind of history that resists summarising. This wa...
Flat White
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Night Swimming
We decided to swim at midnight, which was either a terrible idea or the best one we'd had in years. The lake was forty minutes outside the c...
Cold Brew
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The Long Way Round: Notes on Walking
I have been taking the long way home for most of my adult life. This began as a practical habit — I lived, at various points, in cities wher...
Affogato
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Instructions for the Next Tenant
The boiler makes a sound at two in the morning. You will think it is something else. It is the boiler. It has been doing this for years and...
Cold Brew
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A Taxonomy of Silences
Not all silences are the same. This seems obvious until you try to explain it to someone who has not yet learned to listen carefully, at whi...