164/365 02/02/2026

How many ways can you work it? How many ways can you let the silences fill a room? Apartment? House? Village, town, city? The high buzz of fluorescent lights in the company break room after Gladys lets slip that John’s being let go? The wife, Amanda, staring at her husband’s back through the long night, wondering how she’s going to tell him it’s over? Suzy. Little, previous Suzy who just shrieked at her parents, released a litany of insults so cutting, so profound the whole family sits in a silence and is fundamentally changed? The aftermath of murder.