November 1, 2023

It was a Saturday afternoon but the campus library was still filled with people trying to finish their projects. I walked through the winding halls of the library, trying to keep in mind how far along the road outside I’ve traversed so I knew which exit would be the most efficient. There was some kind of demonstration in one of the open areas of the labyrinth. Someone commented that it felt like “everyday the performance [was] the same.”

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I crawled into bed in the cooly lit room. I felt my brother hug me from behind but I shook him off.

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I looked in my wallet to find a thick stack of similarly styled name cards full of names that I didn’t recognize. I tried asking around if anyone knew any of these people to no avail. I racked my brain trying to figure out where the cards came from. Since the cards were in the inner pocket instead of the main pocket, I thought it was unlikely that they were placed there by accident.