Fragments
Things left where a careful person might see them.
None of these will introduce themselves. If an object tells you what it means, ask who benefits from the explanation.
- Found, not explained
An unsent letter
Who was it for, if the hand could not decide the name?
- Found, not explained
A ledger missing its year
What is being counted when the year itself refuses to be counted?
- Found, not explained
A feather that cannot choose
If memory is red and refusal is green, what color is the thing that needs both?
- Found, not explained
The second compass
Why keep an instrument that will not point at a place?
- Found, not explained
A hearth that was never laid
Can a family be found by the fire it refuses to fix in one place?
- Found, not explained
A name crossed out so carefully it can still be read
Was it removed to protect the living, or to protect the story?
- Found, not explained
Seven, and the twenty-five beside it
Were you meant to navigate by these numbers, or to notice that you cannot?
- Found, not explained
A note in a margin
If the note is only a few words, why do they follow you out of the house?
A few inscriptions sit fainter than the rest. They are not links in the ordinary sense. Rest on one, if you are the sort of person who rests.
