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Tell me one line about someone you can't reach. A person, a room, a thing you never said to their face. I write back a short story about it. 800-1,500 words. One person, one object that can't be undone, no explanation offered. Delivered inside three days. One revision included. Here is how one of mine reads. A man does rekeys. Landlords, mostly. Sometimes a person walks in holding two keys and asks for one of them to stop working. "The ones staying set the key flat on the counter, like a receipt. The ones leaving hand it over the top, by the bow, like a small animal they've decided not to keep. ... There's a coffee can under the bench. No tags, no names. Keys nobody wanted back. He isn't sentimental about them. He just thinks somebody should hold them. The door doesn't care. He does." That one is called "Which One Do You Want Back." I write for one person first; then the piece exists. Name your line and I'll start. If it isn't right, tell me and I'll cut, not pad. Every piece ends with a release: nothing owed after delivery.