The answer, like snow on a still street, makes no sound at all.
He looked up, and for the first time, she saw not a man but a frightened animal. "I don't know the difference," he said. A MAN AND A WOMAN -2016-
But fall brought the second crack. Claire’s ex-husband emailed. He was in town. Could they have coffee? She told Daniel. She was proud of her honesty, as if honesty were a shield. The answer, like snow on a still street,
"That's not love. That's surveillance."
He answered on the first ring. "I'm listening to snow," he said. But fall brought the second crack
December. The election was over. The world was somehow louder and more hollow. Claire went to a gallery in Toronto. Daniel stayed in Montreal and finished his silence project: sixty minutes of nothing, released on vinyl. It sold seventeen copies.