Every single one of them was available in the September of 2019.

And the transition strip — the three-eighths of an inch that jammed her casters, that cost her two lunches in a fortnight, that was the specific physical object that made a boy in her class sell a guitar — was ground flat by a maintenance man named Alton in ninety minutes on the fourth of March 2024.

Eighty-one dollars.

Part Forty-One: Rambler

And the noise in the corridor was not a schoolyard problem either, which I also did not know.