If That Hadn't

Name one small thing that could have gone differently, and follow it. Push off from this if it helps: a locked door in a building you work in.

The fire door on the third floor — Marisol usually wedges it with that busted extinguisher bracket so deliveries don't have to loop round. Tuesday it was shut. Guy from the print place buzzed for twenty minutes, nobody…

Open by claiming something enormous turned on something tiny. Push off from this if it helps: a song you only half remember.

There was this song stuck in my head last week — couldn't even remember the words, just the chord it kept landing on — and I swear it's the reason I didn't take a job offer that would've moved me to Lisbon. Sat in the…