13. The Photograph

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:49:55 +0000

That was the thing she kept coming back to afterward — the specific ordinariness of how it happened, the absence of drama, the way it was simply placed on the table between them the way all the other things had been placed on the table between them, and she had picked it up the way she picked up all the other things, and the difference only became apparent after she was already looking at it.