Text: Solveig Hansen, 2018

ON THE CORNER OF GRAFTON AND DUKE
I squandered my time trying to define him, so I erased him from my story and left him standing on the corner of Grafton and Duke.

If you encounter him on the corner of Grafton and Duke, a vague, elusive character, not yet fully written into life, be kind to him.

No one is as real to me as people in the novel. It grows like a living thing. When I realize they do not exist except in my mind I have a feeling of sadness, looking around for them, as if the half-empty cafe were a place I had once come to with friends who had all moved away.
― Mavis Gallant

 
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