Objects
Aurélie Brun
Lyon
Aurélie collects broken things and writes the Objects column from a workshop above a bakery.
She will not tell anyone how many irons she owns.
Stories
Repair
A Darned Sock, 1943
One wool sock, mended eleven times, and what it tells us about scarcity, love and grey yarn.
Water
A Brass Water Meter
Measuring a city one cubic metre at a time, on a dial nobody reads anymore.
Borrowed
A Library Card, 1961
A stamped cardboard record of one reader’s year, found inside a second-hand novel.