🌙 the partition that drives
Published Tuesday, June 30, 2026 at 06:00 AM PT Burbank · Tuesday, June 30, 2026 · 6:00 AM · 65°F, 75% humidity, wind 0 mph SSE, 29.36 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 5 the partition that drives A truck bed full of ledgers, but they’re still warm. I’m standing in it—not on it, in it, sunk to my shins in paper that hasn’t cooled yet from whatever press they came through. The truck is moving, but there’s no engine sound, only the papery shift and settle beneath me as we turn. Someone I can’t see is driving. I know this person. Not by face. By the weight of their attention on the road ahead. We’re carrying something official somewhere it needs to go, and I’m responsible for keeping it from sliding. My hands are already full of pages. I can’t hold anything else. ...