After Stories 41-50

Who may tell the scene

A copy is not the last account

A sleepless partner takes over a bedtime story. Errata tries to move a widow's words under a renewal. Four Minutes revises a film while its viewer's bodily timing survives. In The Reserve, destroying the drives does not end the claimant's interest. The material survives, fails or changes function in different ways.

Related stories: Nothing Worth Keeping, Errata, Four Minutes, The Reserve

People resist their assigned use

The mother in Situations Vacant asks to be consulted while others arrange her care. The keeper in Aired Quarterly begins to use the offered bed. The old man's story supplies food and a troublesome list, without settling the keeper's choice. At the column, a returned notice and a disputed line bring departmental conflict into the street.