Room for next time

Nigel Tucker · FREE STORY

Nigel opens his notebook at a short entry: “Colin. Postcard. Pencil.” For a moment he wonders what else he wanted to add. There is no need to hurry. On the next page he draws a rectangular window, like the ones he worked around. He leaves a space beside it. Perhaps another detail will return later, or perhaps the drawing will stay on its own. Nigel rests the pencil on the notebook. Conversation is not a memory test. It is all right simply to sit and return to a sentence when the mood comes.

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