Writings of the Mostly Bewildered

Stories and scripts from someone who is, at best, only ever partially sure of what's going on.

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Story

The Man Who Apologised to Furniture

He had started with the coffee table — a genuine accident, a stubbed toe, a muttered sorry — and somewhere between the wardrobe and the kitchen chairs, it had become a habit. The furniture, for its part, remained unmoved.

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Script

INT. WAITING ROOM — CONTINUOUS

Two people wait. Neither is sure what for. The clock on the wall has been wrong since Tuesday, which everyone agrees is somehow worse than if it had always been wrong.

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Story

A Brief History of Misplaced Keys

The keys were not lost. They were, the author insisted, simply in a location that had not yet been identified.

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Script

THE COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN

CHAIR: We are here to discuss the matter. MEMBER: Which matter? CHAIR: (long pause) That's rather the question, isn't it.

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Two kinds of bewilderment

Chapter I

Scripts

Dialogue for situations that probably shouldn't exist. Stage directions for rooms that feel slightly off. Characters who are doing their best, which is not always enough.

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Chapter II

Short Stories

Prose for the quietly confused. Narratives that begin with reasonable premises and arrive somewhere unexpected, usually via a detour through mild existential unease.

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About this bewilderment

These are writings from someone who finds the world consistently surprising, occasionally alarming, and — on a good day — rather funny. The scripts and stories collected here emerged from a long-standing habit of noticing things that probably don't warrant noticing, and writing them down anyway.

(The author is aware this does not entirely explain things. That is, in a sense, the point.)