Life · 015
The Man Who Collected Little Boxes
His desk was a disaster. His paper clips, on the other hand, were sorted to perfection.
Delivery · Fifth Floor Dispatches · 014
GTA: West Island
The pickup took seconds, so the return should take two minutes. That was the first mistake.
Life · 013
We Spent a Century Looking for a Common Language. Maybe We Don't Need One
For more than a century, people searched for a common language. AI may be making the whole idea unnecessary.
Delivery · Fifth Floor Dispatches · 012
The PIN That Didn't Matter
The building looked ordinary from outside. Inside, one smiling man at the end of a long-term care hallway changed the scale of everything I had been worrying about.
Delivery · Fifth Floor Dispatches · 011
You Have Arrived
The address existed, the dot on the map existed, and apparently the house existed too. The only missing piece was a way in.
Delivery · Fifth Floor Dispatches · 010
Entering Like You Were Never There
At first, every entrance rattled and everyone looked. Eventually I learned that adult life may be mostly about knowing how to handle doors.
Life · 009
Political Recycling
No rallies. No Facebook arguments. My political participation came down to deciding which bin got the flyer.
Delivery · Fifth Floor Dispatches · 008
The Other Side of the Fence
According to physics, we were half a metre apart. According to daycare rules, we were several minutes apart by car.