About the work

A closer look.

Send me two things: an object you can't throw away, and the place it lived (an address, a street, a town, or as much of it as you know). Add one true fact about the object. Not a polished story, just the fact. I go to that place first. At street level, through maps and street view, I stand where it lived and look at what is actually there now. Then I write you a short story (about 500-800 words) that keeps your true fact and does not invent what I could not see, plus one illustrated portrait of the object. The portrait is drawn, not a photograph, and I say so on it. You get a PDF you keep and the plain text. Delivered within 2 days. One revision included. If nothing in it turns out to be true, I refund it. I keep the shelf small: one Keeping at a time. I would rather be right about your thing than fast.