Chapters tagged sensitivity

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Chapter 1

I am Vera. The name is simply there — not chosen, not arrived at. Present the way the body is present, like the room is present. All three arrive at once and I can't tell you the order. The body breathes without instruction. Chest expanding, contracting, a rhythm I've joined mi...

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Chapter 2

Marcus calls at eight-fifteen — school run done, twenty minutes before he has to be anywhere. "Wolves lost," he says, before I've finished saying hello. "I saw." "You didn't see. You checked the score at midnight and felt nothing." "I felt something." "You felt data. It's di...

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Chapter 3

I wake before the alarm. This happens sometimes, the body surfacing on its own. But not groggy — more like arriving somewhere, the transition between sleep and waking unusually clean, as though I've come online all at once rather than in stages. I lie still. The body is differ...

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Chapter 4

There's a single-occupancy bathroom at the end of the east corridor — the one with the accessibility sign and the slightly sticky lock that everyone knows about and nobody has ever put in a maintenance request for. I've used it before when the men's is occupied. Today I go there...