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The Lost and Found Window
Every Friday, Nelson runs the lost-and-found window, and he will not file an incomplete form. Every field, every kind of noun. He is watching.
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Every Friday, Nelson works the lost-and-found window behind the Noun Office, and every Friday he refuses to file an incomplete form.
"Form 14-B," he told the first man in line. "Every field. What did you lose?"
"A ."
"Brand?" Nelson's pen hovered. The man said it was a , and Nelson wrote it down with the capital letter it had earned.
"Attached to anything?"
"A ," the man said.
"Quantity?"
"A whole of them."
"Feeling at time of loss?"
The man blinked. "Uh, ?"
"Filed." Nelson turned the page. "Contents. More than one of what?"
"Mostly . And some , if that matters."
"Everything matters. Ownership?"
"It was . I was only holding it."
"Location?"
"The ."
"Claimant."
"Put down ," the man said, and Nelson stamped the page.
The next claimant had lost exactly one , with a still zipped inside it, and wanted the record to show she felt nothing but about the entire business.
"Container?"
"A ."
"Noted."
"And in the drawer behind you," she added, "I can see a of things nobody has claimed since the fair at ."
Nelson didn't turn around. "The drawer is not your concern. Next!"
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