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The Handwriting

Did that week happen to you?

The Handwriting

You find a notebook in a box in your parents' attic. It's your handwriting, from when you were fifteen. Pages of it. Opinions, a fight with a friend, a whole week at the sea. You don't remember writing any of it, and you don't remember the week.

Did that week happen to you?

Then ask

  • If none of it is in your head, what's left connecting you to that person?
  • Would you rather read the notebook or burn it unread?
  • Which do you trust more, the page or your memory of that year?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Same Boat
  2. The Room of Slips
  3. Mary's Grey Room
  4. The Lever
  5. The New Song
  6. Same Dog
  7. The Forgery
  8. The Phone Knows