You Must Remember This...

(and, yes, a sigh is just a sigh)

Recently, on social media, I encountered this literary allusion:

I remembered that I had written something about it, in Cenotaphs. The book’s main character is a writer who fantasizes about—and plots—his own disappearance. Along the way, he writes several stories in order to explore his options.

This is a portion of one chapter:

Stranded at the Front Desk