Card Catalogue
Nadi finds a drawer that still believes in alphabetical order.
A fictional narrative within Callizto Dark Symphony.
Nadi pulled the drawer.
The cards were not secrets. They were stubborn.
FOUNTAIN, EXCHANGE — see also: committee, apology, water.
SEARCH, WARS — see also: recipes, tired, centralize.
She photographed nothing.
Oren Beck watched from the door.
“You could search that.”
“I know where it sits.”
“That’s the course.”
She put the card back in F, not S, because the person who had written it had understood that fountains were how cities hid their leaks.
On the way out she told intern Pell, downstairs, that Cabinet 12 was in a mood.
Pell wrote mood in a notebook, then crossed it out, then left it.
Paper is contagious.
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