Then picked it up again.
There was a tiny chip near the handle.
I had never noticed it.
“So that is what you look like.”
No one answered.
My phone lit.
Arthur.
The file is in Cabinet Seven.
I turned the phone facedown.
Opened a kitchen drawer.
Found a forgotten tea bag.
Six weeks past its best-by date.
I laughed.
Threw it away.
That was the kind of problem I wanted for a while.
Expired tea.
Stained mugs.
Scholarship forms.