Back to all storiesAn irregular serial. A new story appears when one is ready.
Serial fiction
The Paperweight Hours
Stories from an old stationery shop that opens at nine in the evening, and the people who pass through it.
Publication note
An irregular serial. A new story appears when one is ready.
Ongoing4 episodes
Premise
Series premise
At the end of an alley on the edge of the city, Paperweight Stationery keeps strange hours: closed all day, open from nine at night until midnight. The owner rarely speaks. Beside the till sits an old desk anyone may write at, and in its drawer lies the one thing in the shop that is not for sale, the letters people wrote there and then decided not to send. Each story follows one night, and one person, through the shop.
Contents
Episodes
- 01The Woman Who Came in for InkNEWOn the day she leaves an eleven-year job, a woman walks into a stationery shop that only opens at night, carrying a pen whose ink dried years ago.
- 02The Unsent DrawerNEWIn a drawer with no lock, the unsent letters pile up: an apology from April, a goodbye from June, and a letter that keeps stalling at its third sentence.
- 03Taking InventoryNEWThe notebook says STOCK on the cover, but it records no prices. What was bought, and one thing seen. Forty years of a ledger that refuses to conclude.
- 04The Thursday PencilsNEWThe man who buys a dozen pencils every Thursday finally says why, across the desk from a child who uses her eraser to draw light.