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City nightThe streets forgive what daylight won't.2 stories · 2–3 min LonelinessThe ache of an empty half.2 stories · 2 min Late trainThe last stop asks a question.1 stories · 3 min Kitchen tableWhere the real conversations happen.1 stories · 3 min

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My desk faces the kitchen window of the apartment across the alley. For a long time I did not know whose kitchen it was. The light came on at 6:40 each evening, and went off near eleven, and that was the whole conversation.

#tenderness

#city-night

She has been gone three months. The coat is still on the hook by the door — the hook by the door, not in the closet. I have looked at this coat every day. I have not moved it.

#heartbreak

#yearning

#loneliness

There is a drawer in the desk, low and stiff, that I open once a year. Inside it are letters I wrote and did not send. They are not love letters and they are not angry letters; they are most often the letter you write when you cannot bear the actual one and so you write a version that no one will read.

#letters

#nostalgia

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I have stopped setting an alarm. The body keeps its own appointments — five-twelve, five-fourteen — and the windows are still black, with a kind of black that has its own listening to it.

A man with one earbud in, the other one dangling, like he is half-listening to a city and half-listening to a private weather.

It rained the kind of rain that is not weather, exactly — too soft to require an umbrella, too steady to ignore. I walked home through it for twenty minutes and arrived neither wet nor dry, in some third condition I did not have a word for.

The room is open until you close it.