Ineptly holding the knife, you reach back towards the wine-dark jacket hanging on the hook. Digging into the expanse of the pocket, you pull forward a small bronze statue of a horse performing dressage. You have seen this before in an old picture in a family album. This belonged to your grandmother, who died from tuberculosis before you were born. Music begins playing in another room, and you drop the figurine to the floor in a loud crash and hear shuffling feet in the distance.
Do you pick up the figurine or go follow the music coming from the next room?
〔⍺〕〔go back〕〔pick up figurine〕〔follow the music〕
Brian writes Standing in Doorways, a newsletter dedicated to essays and stories of lingering in those spaces on the margins and along the edges, where decisions build character and challenge notions of access and separation.
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Mysteriously so! So much so, I would think this may become a leitmotif for future nodes!
Just catching up with all of these. Brilliantly done, Brian!