- Working title
- The Walk I Counted
- Situation
- The narrator counts a short errand as exercise and then has to sit with how thin that victory is.
- What the narrator is avoiding, admitting or circling
- He knows he is measuring effort in the easiest possible units.
- Concrete detail
- The phone says twelve minutes, including the time spent standing by the crossing.
- Emotional pressure
- Health, ageing and the slight fraudulence of calling a necessary errand a plan.
- Suggested first sentence
- I decided the walk counted because I had worn the right shoes.