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A cardboard cutout of a smiling husband sits at the dinner table with a pink tape recorder strapped to its chest.

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The Alibi

The ready explanation and where you were while your life happened.

Figure
The explanation you had ready before anyone asked.
Pattern
A story for where you were while your life happened.
What it protects
If the story is good enough, nobody checks the facts. Including you.
What it costs
You have rehearsed the excuse more often than the life.
The move
Tell one person the unrehearsed version.
ON FILE
A cassette of the story, rewound forty times.

In each position

  1. HOW IT STARTED

    You had the explanation ready before anyone asked. Nobody asked. You gave it anyway.

  2. HOW IT'S GOING

    You are telling the story again. It is getting better. The facts have stopped attending.

  3. HOW IT ENDS, ALLEGEDLY

    You will say that is what happened. You will have said it enough times to believe it.

Three questions

  1. Which story do you have ready before anyone asks?
  2. Who has heard the unrehearsed version?
  3. What were you doing while the story was happening?

A sample file

A sample file

This office is in possession of one cassette of the story, rewound forty times and still in good condition. The explanation was ready before anyone asked. Nobody asked. It was given anyway, and the office has entered that order of events into evidence. The story improves with every telling, and the file shows the facts stopped attending some time ago, with no objection raised. If the story is good enough nobody checks it, and you have stopped checking it yourself. The office has an explanation ready for why this finding is late, and nobody has asked for that either. xxx xxxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xx xxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxxxx xx xx xxxxxx xxxxxx The unrehearsed version is on file, in one copy, unplayed. The story was never for them, it was for you.

EXHIBITS

  1. A. A cassette of the story, rewound forty times.
  2. B. Two place settings, one paper bag.
  3. C. Twelve copies of one screenshot.

DENIEDon the record

Every file is written for the person who pulled it. This one was written for nobody, so it is the only one you get to read without pulling. One sentence is sealed on every public copy, this one included.

On file in cotton

The shirt

The story checks out. The facts were not consulted.

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