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Fictional story · FC-S20

Interval

Interval is when the cheap door and the expensive seats briefly share a thirst.

Format: Short story

Archive section: forge-city

District: Lattice

Location: Arena bar, twenty minutes of house lights

Reading time: 3 minutes

Tone: Culture, work

A fictional narrative within Callizto Dark Symphony.

Ivo did not drink on interval. Drinking was for people who had sat.

Saff bought water anyway and gave it to a boy with an Old Circuit pin.

“I stood,” the boy said.

“Then you’ve paid.”

The bar tried to sell belonging in a glass. Saff already had an aisle.

When the bell went, Ivo opened the west door a finger’s width to remind the hall that night existed.

The second half began.

Nobody billed the finger of air.