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Field Notes from the Wish-Recording App

Lore, folklore, language, and the long literary history of asking for things you should not ask for.

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Tonight's echo

“Let the train stop at our station.”

The toll

It stopped. It had not been scheduled to. The next station no longer exists in the timetables — it was demoted to a watchpost, then to nothing, and the family who lived above it was registered in a town fifty miles south.

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