Day 72: Anne and Sturdivant
Anne quotes Nicole Krause to Sturdivant. More obfuscation? Or insight? Today's 100-word story in the serial novel Centenary.
72: Anne and Sturdivant
- Well, [ ]'s gone, I suppose that’s for the better.
- What are you talking about, Anne? You said she would be useful.
- Do you ever read The New Yorker, Sturdivant?
- Good God Anne, not now.
- Nicole Krause had a story published awhile ago. “Long Island.” A lot of words, but the ones I remember, the ones that mean something right now, to me, to us: “Vacancy is the only reliable form of safety.”
- What the hell does that even mean?
- Why they leave. Why they leave us, Sturdivant. They are vacating, they have vacated, to safety.
- What safety? What is safety?
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