The Department of Lost Things

Not objects. Everything here was misplaced some other way. Browse the ledger below.

Confidence

I had it right up until the day I was asked to use it in front of everyone.— submitted anonymously

Friendships

We just stopped, the way a tap left dripping eventually runs dry.— submitted anonymously

Languages

My grandmother's, which I understood perfectly until the year I didn't.— submitted anonymously

Traditions

We used to set a place for the ones who'd gone. Nobody decided to stop. We just did.— submitted anonymously

Favourite books, whose titles have been forgotten

Green cover. A boy and a river. I have looked for it for eleven years.— submitted anonymously

Places that changed too much

I went back and the field was a car park, and I grieved it like a person.— submitted anonymously

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