The Bed Stopped Working For It

It is not the reach. It is how long the reach takes now.

The Bed Stopped Working For It — On the bed. “Don’t watch.” She was already on the floor by then, one leg folded, the little bottle open on the boards beside her.

On the bed

“Don’t watch.” She was already on the floor by then, one leg folded, the little bottle open on the boards beside her.

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It took her eleven minutes. He timed it, and never said so. The reaching was the part that had changed — not the reach itself, she could still get there on the good side if she went slowly, but everything the reach now had to go around first.

Every stage of the sequence

  1. On the bed. “Don’t watch.” She was already on the floor by then, one leg folded, the little bottle open on the boards beside her.
  2. Eleven minutes. She had done this on the bed once. The floor gives you more room to work around what is in the way.

She got the last two. It took her four more minutes. “There. Fine. Done.”