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Crooked Common Threads, Pockets of Life

Bob is looking for something, throughout the novella and Bob’s going through something, it’s complicated, or maybe not at all. Maybe he’s overcomplicating it. Something or someone might be looking for him, too. Bob looks out the peephole of his door to see what’s going on in the hallway, he looks out his window, he presses his ear against his neighbors’ wall, ever since his ex-wife Ava pointed out a black car on their street. The black car stays around but he’s got no idea about Ava anymore. Not only does Ava disappear from his life, but so do others soon after they enter his life, like a masseuse or the two roommates he meets individually one, because of the other, Lily and Sheila.

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