“Don’t turn around. Look straight ahead. At me. No. Don’t turn. There, straight ahead.
Do I remember the first time? That’s the obvious question when trying to make an anecdote, a story of it. I don’t. Or rather, I only remember the first time of thinking it was odd that I should see him again. I must have noticed him before that to have had the thought, but I can’t recall the actual first or the subsequent occasions that would’ve struck me as a curiosity, funny, a remarkable coincidence, absurd. The memory has formed around the fear, the moment seeing him became uncanny. I wonder how much else of my experience has formed that way …”
read GLANTZ: A Prelude in full here.
This first appeared in Firmament Vol. 2, No. 2 in April 2022. Copies of the magazine are available from Sublunary Editions’ website.
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