Not an Exit
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All My Teeth Are Yours (opens the original)
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Not an Exit · a serialised novel · start with the back cover blurb (or not)TRACK YOUR ITEM — HISTORYItem: letter, 1. Enclosure: 1. Weight at acceptance: 24 g. Ref number: XX135159680GBTue 18.04 — Accepted at Post Office counter, London.Tue 21.37 — Item received at mail centre.Wed 02.15 — Item processed.Wed 06.40 — Item received at delivery office, London N17.Thu 11.52 — Out for delivery.Thu 12.31 — Delivery attempted. No answer.Thu 12.33 &#
Sanctum Sudarium (opens the original)
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Not an Exit · a serialised novel · start at the beginning (or not)Allen removes his flip-flops at the Blue Dove and leaves them with the others, and since the others are already inside, he counts them: six pairs, black-and-white stripes, a pink pair with Hello Kitty on the strap, blue Crocs... The smell was almost unbearable in the changing room—feet, and the pickled ghost of a hundred karate uniforms washed and not quite dried—and here it’s thinned to nearly nothing, which isn’t any improvement
Everything Must Stay (opens the original)
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Not an Exit · a serialised novel · start at the beginning (or not)Later, much later, I returned to the building and went through it floor by floor, room by room, taking stock, which nobody requested, since nobody requests anything of me anymore, which is the first of two things I will tell you tonight, about that time and about what came after that time. The second thing is, as you’ll see: I saved everything (and made up whatever was missing).<a class="footnote-anchor" href="#footnote-1" id="foo
Paradise, Some Assembly Required (opens the original)
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Not an Exit · a serialised novel · start at the beginning (or not)I told you about Allen’s months of solitary confinement. Here’s the tricky thing about it: there was no audience, no one to perform for. He had no need to define himself anymore, no need for an identity. He became irrelevant, even to himself. On the night of the—well... I could actually give you the night, now, for a change. For a year I could only give you the loop, the av
Ego te absolvo (opens the original)
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Not an Exit · a serialised novel · start at the beginning (or not)I told you I’d show you Allen’s secret life (the things he didn’t tell Sébastien at the pub). Here it is, or here is the part of it I can reconstruct from every file, every log, every notebook he kept or meant to keep, the cloud where nothing is ever deleted, only moved to a colder latitude and billed to an expired credit card. I was told not to read private documents. That wa
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