Talk to me in the past tense.
Russian words sound like English played backward. Tell me anything in that language and I'll believe it.
Roll the record back. Scratch, scratch, one long shriek. Click, click, start again.
The needle in the groove is a fingernail
(more)on my spine.
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A duplex. A young woman lives on one side, and old woman on the other.
The young woman's rooms are full of clocks. On tables, on chairs, on the floor, suspended with invisible strings from the ceiling.
tick.
The old woman's rooms are covered in mirrors. Every surface is reflective. Light touches every corner.
A flicker.
The wall between the two apartments is not really there.
The past will come later.
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