Book 8 of 16
Late to meet someone
They are already sitting down. Reasons that buy you fifteen minutes without spending a friendship.
691 verses across 23 chapters
A reading
- 1 It's fog and I can see about a car length Plausible
- 2 Snow came in overnight and nothing has been salted Plausible
- 3 It's ice and I've watched two cars go past sideways Plausible
- 4 A power line has come down and the road's taped off Unverifiable
- 5 The sun is exactly where the road is and I've pulled over Concerning
- 6 The hail has done something to the car and I need to look at it Unverifiable
- 7 There's a flood warning and I'm inside the warning Unverifiable
- 8 The wind has taken a tree down across the lane Plausible
- 9 The road out of the village is under water Plausible
- 10 There's weather where I am Unverifiable
- 11 A ladder is across all four lanes and nobody has stopped Concerning
- 12 The ferry didn't run and nobody put that anywhere Unverifiable
- 13 The app says two minutes and has said two minutes for nine minutes Unverifiable
- 14 I got on going the right way on the wrong line Unverifiable
- 15 There's a marathon and the whole area is closed Plausible
- 16 Somebody is teaching somebody to reverse in the only exit Unverifiable
- 17 I've been sitting in the same place long enough to finish a podcast Unverifiable
- 18 A parade has started and I'm inside it Concerning
Where the rest of them are
- The Treachery of Objects72
- The Journey In72
- The Body Malfunctioning55
- Animals Have Plans49
- Fragments45
- The Uncanny44
- Small Disasters26
- The Kitchen26
- Lapses of Mind24
- How a Morning Fails24
- The Mid-Century Register24
- Cars, and How They Decline23
- Vaudeville Literalism22
- Out Among People21
- The Unwell20
- Errands20
- Appearing as a Finished Person19
- Communication Sideways19
- Arrangements19
- People Who Cannot Drive Themselves19
- The Ceiling18
- Weather and Calendar15
- The Street15
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