- Working title
- The Drawer
- Situation
- The narrator opens a kitchen drawer to find one form and ends up sorting batteries, old keys and instruction leaflets from things long gone.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- The form matters, but the delay is easier to dress up as tidying.
- Concrete detail
- A rubber band snaps around a bundle of loyalty cards.
- Emotional pressure
- The small job has become proof of whether the narrator can still deal with simple admin.
- Suggested first sentence
- I opened the drawer for one form and found the usual evidence against myself.