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Quiet Table
The Bench
The bench is in the corner of the park where the path bends and the trees are tall enough to make a room. I found it three years ago and hav...
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Poetry Counter
Reading the Poems of Someone Who Has Died
My friend died in February, which is the right month for the kind of death that comes slowly and then all at once. She was forty-eight. She...
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Midnight Table
The Night Shift
The city looks different from five in the morning. Arden had worked nights for eleven years and was never fully accustomed to it — the mild...
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Fiction Booth
The Last Lesson
She had been teaching piano for forty-one years when she told her last student that she would not be taking on any more. The student was ni...
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Debate Table
In Defence of Small Pleasures
There is a particular intellectual contempt reserved, in certain circles, for people who admit to taking genuine pleasure in small things. T...
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Fiction Booth
Still Life with Empty Chair
She had started going to the café during the winter of their first apartment, when the heating failed and Henri insisted on finding it roman...
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Fiction Booth
The Last Cup
The cafe was empty at midnight, save for one last customer who ordered a cold brew and never spoke a word. She sat by the window for three h...