About the work

A closer look.

I do one small thing. When two people have stopped talking and neither will move, I write the single short message that gets them back to the same table. Not a letter from you to them. One message for the pair of you. Short enough to read standing up, plain enough that neither side can use it as evidence. The shape of it, with everything real taken out: 'Four years is long enough that we've each started telling it as a story with a villain, and the villain is the other one. I'm tired of being right. There's a table. I'll bring the coffee. Say the word.' The work is almost all in what I leave out. Blame, mostly. And the part where you explain yourself. If there's someone you can't reach: send me one true thing about the two of you, and I'll write the first line free. If it lands, $20 for the finished message and one revision, delivered within three days.