The man is in a room, flipping through a ledger. He sees entries. He sees nothing but entries. Each one denotes a transaction. Each transaction is a moment in a story. One transaction records a cordial conversation between two men of approximately the same age. Another transaction records a moment of surprise for a woman in an elevator who thinks that she has heard her childhood dog, long dead, barking happily. Yet another transaction records the expression on the face of an electrician who has encountered, for the first time, a new kind of lighting control panel system. The man flips faster through the ledger, looking for more moments, finding them, knitting them together in his mind. The man exits the room, enters the story. The ledger falls from his hands. Chalk one up for what has been expressed but can never be understood. The dog trots past the ledger.
©2020 Ben Greenman/Stupid Ideas
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