As in walking down them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As in they open into corridors and aren\u2019t tight at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can\u2019t stick a bed in them, but a couch? Definitely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s one at the rec center. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was walking through a wall, looking out the peepholes while folks exercised and hydrated, and right by the pool was a couch probably a few decades old, a little ragged, with chip particles in the cushions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I think it\u2019s bad that people are doing this, and that I\u2019m doing this, but I am doing this, and I will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like it, it\u2019s collegial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But without the work of hanging out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It takes concentration to wiggle in, but the rest\u2019s super easy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I could bring a camp chair and sit for hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Better than watching a log burn on Netflix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Better than texting friends who just blab about themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They say so much shit that isn\u2019t true, and I know because I sit in their walls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I know some of them do it too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was stepping into my bathroom wall once when I heard someone get up and run out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An iPhone was still gleaming when I picked it up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can\u2019t decode the lock but I recognize the cat on the background for sure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
How many people do it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All I can say is behind the veggie aisle at Kroger there\u2019s a lamp, a trashcan, and a vending machine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If they installed a vending machine, it\u2019s bound to be a pretty solid number of folks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couch in that wall is super comfortable. Leather. Clean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There\u2019s a fucking ashtray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s like heaven sitting there, watching mist hiss over the lettuce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Addison Zeller’s fiction appears in<\/em> 3:AM, Epiphany, Ligeia, minor literature[s}, ergot., trampset, and elsewhere. He lives in Wooster, Ohio. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"