The Horizons
The Witnessed
TAM_WIT_1-01
The Drive Home
The word, the day it arrives, and the one who heard it when she heard it
The calendar from the bank has one word in today's square. The word arrives at twenty minutes to eleven, and the room goes on without any pause around it. The thing that heard it …
TAM_WIT_1-02
The Recipe Box
The card that assumed a kitchen that knew the rest
Eileen makes her mother's apple dumplings for Sunday dinner, and it goes well. The card stops halfway; the kitchen says the rest at the moment the sugar is in her hand. She is …
TAM_WIT_1-03
The Next Room
The daughter, the portal, and the part with no shift
Denise sleeps because the house watches, and the caregiver's 3 a.m. is a room she has never had to live in. The hospital bed is pending, which is not a status but a place. The …
TAM_WIT_1-04
The Extra Leaf
The family Saturday, and the ledger nobody opens
The leaf goes into the table their father sanded, and the family that gathers is the first whose ledger is awake. It knows who moved back and whose calls run eight minutes. Nobody …
TAM_WIT_1-05
The Transfer
What went to the machine, and what had somewhere else to go
The lift takes Eileen up the way weather takes up water, and Marcia spots a machine that does not miss. The lifting went to the machine the day the machine could lift. The washing …
TAM_WIT_1-07
The Witness
Whether presence without a body amounts to witness
Eileen is not alone at three in the morning; whether she is witnessed is the question the essay will not put down. Nothing else in her life was ever uninterrupted. Denise reports a …
TAM_WIT_1-08
The Unaccompanied
An ordinary Thursday, kept to its last line
The percolator starts at 6:40 because at some point the kitchen learned 6:40. Raymond's Thursday is a Thursday, the folder of decisions is clear about asking twice, and at twenty …