- Working title
- The Spare Room Box
- Situation
- The narrator moves one box in the spare room and finds notes from an older plan for their life.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- They are not upset by the old plan exactly; they are embarrassed by how certain they once sounded.
- Concrete detail
- A folder still has a printed label peeling from one corner.
- Emotional pressure
- The past version of the narrator seems more organised than the current one.
- Suggested first sentence
- I only meant to move the box, which is how these things start.