I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

out in real time, the last number resolving into nothing with the specific finality of a line being drawn beneath a column of figures that have been fully accounted for.

The first time I had watched that amount leave an account, I had felt hollow. Surgical and hollow and aware of something I could not yet name.

This time I felt nothing of the kind. What continue reading …