Peripheral Vision
About the Story
A photographic conservator navigates a public scandal after fragments of a night at the river surface: a voice recording, clinic memos, and surveillance tie her to an event she had tried to forget. As institutional practices are exposed and legal inquiries begin, she must decide between erasure and accountability. The atmosphere is taut and often clinical, the protagonist reserved and meticulous, and the initial impulse is to recover a missing sequence of memory through small artifacts — prints, tapes, and a worn notebook — that gradually form a troubling pattern.
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