- Working title
- The Drawer of Leads
- Situation
- The narrator tries to sort a drawer full of old charging leads, adaptors and small cables that may or may not belong to anything still in use.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- He is using tidying as a way of feeling organised without dealing with the project he meant to start.
- Concrete detail
- Three black USB leads are kept because one of them might fit an old external drive.
- Emotional pressure
- The irritation of knowing that small practical clutter has become a stand-in for larger indecision.
- Suggested first sentence
- I found the lead drawer while looking for something else, which was the first mistake.