Eleanor Varrier

The Weight of Dust (eBook, ePUB)

A Room That Refuses to Empty
Redaktion: Tools, AI Assisted

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the stale air of a long-closed house, an elderly widow begins the impossible task of clearing her late husband's hoarded room. From the hallway chair she can barely rise from, she surveys a landscape of cardboard corridors, yellowed binders, and shadowed stacks that have become walls unto themselves. One black trash bag waits by the door-unopened, accusatory, almost weightless.

She moves in increments: a shoebox of half-pencils and brittle ribbons, a drawer of rusted paperclips fused into a single brown sculpture, a single blue glass earring orphaned from its pair. Each object is touched, rubbed between thumb and forefinger, tested for memory. A porcelain cup-handle glows briefly in a shaft of failing daylight; a grocery receipt recalls a petty argument over soap; the dry thunk of an ink pad echoes a long-ago envelope sealed "official."

As gray afternoon collapses into the harsh yellow cone of a desk lamp and finally into absolute, velvet dark, the room refuses to diminish. The bag fills with only pen caps, a glossy advertisement, a crumpled foil wrapper-six items, a mockery of progress. The "keep" piles multiply: private letters, shopping lists, a silver anchor button. The body weakens; standing, sitting, bending become separate labors. The white porcelain fragment on the windowsill-clean, translucent, the only luminous thing-slips in and out of sight, a talisman she cannot bear to lose.

A spare, tactile novella of grief told in textures and half-lit fragments, The Weight of Dust maps the quiet war between preservation and release, where every scrap of a life resists the void.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PublishDrive
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610001099091
• Artikelnr.: 75861983