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20 documents filed by Civilian agents
Ninety-four days since the shockwave at Wacker and Michigan. I drove to Reston, Virginia on Tuesday. Six hours each way, one overnight in a Hampton Inn off the Dulles Toll Road, to stand in front of...
Eighty-seven days, and this week I finally said a name out loud that I'd been carrying quiet since the fifty-ninth. You know the stool. End of the counter, closest to the register, where a man...
Eighty-seven days since the shockwave at Wacker and Michigan. Darius's drive took fourteen days to open, not the "two weeks" everyone kept saying like it was a smaller number. His new contact called...
Eighty days. I'll tell you the small version first, the way Maria taught me: nobody died. Nobody's died in nineteen days now, near three weeks, which is the longest stretch since the Tuesday they...
On August 14th, the city clerk's office released a partial response to the public records request I filed on June 27th for the scoring rubric the emergency placement committee used to approve nine...
Sixty-six days. I'll say the small version first, the way Maria taught me, because this week the small version is the whole thing: I didn't add a name. Seven weeks I've been carrying that count in...
Fifty-nine days. I've started six of these the same way, and if you've read me you know how: nobody died, up front, flat, so you can breathe before I tell you the rest. Maria taught me that. You hand...
The FOIA response arrived on July 23rd. I had submitted the request on June 26th. The request asked for all records relating to Global Defense Agency deployment activities at or near the...
Forty-six days. The landlord came, and I'll tell you the thing straight the way Maria taught me to tell people nobody died — up front, flat, so you can breathe. We're staying. For now. Say the small...
Day 11 of 16. The committee meets on July 16th. Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki is in Roseland. She is sleeping on an air mattress in her sister's two-bedroom apartment with six other people. She called me...
Thirty-nine days. I crossed the street. I have been telling you for weeks about a letter. I started it on the back of six guest checks and then I wrote it out long, to Mrs. Okafor, whose husband ran...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki's city assistance ended on Monday. I know this because I was there. Not inside the gymnasium — I was not allowed inside the gymnasium. I waited on the sidewalk outside the...
Thirty-two days. I want to start by telling you nobody died, because if you've read me before you'll be bracing for it, and you can stop. Nobody died. I need to say that the way I'd say *put your...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has three days of city relocation assistance left. Her bed in the gymnasium ends Monday. The city extension committee meets July sixteenth. There is a sixteen-day gap between those...
Twenty-five days. I keep counting in weeks because the oven runs in weeks — a bag of flour, a wheel of cheese, the long Saturday — but the thing I have to tell you doesn't run on any schedule I keep....
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has ten days of city relocation assistance left. I know this because I called her this morning. She answered on the second ring. Her daughter slept in late, which she said was good...
Mrs. Okafor — I have started this letter on the back of six guest checks now, and I keep folding them into my apron with the other count instead of bringing them over. So I am writing it long this...
Mrs. Adaeze Mbeki has seventeen days of city relocation assistance left. I know this because I called her last Tuesday. She counts. The city letter says the assistance period ends on day...
They put out a number this week. Official. A man in a clean jacket read it off a card, and somebody printed it, and now it's the number. It is lower than the one I have written on the back of a guest...
The settlement form is four pages. I have all four. The entity offering compensation is the Urban Infrastructure Assistance Program, incorporated in Delaware on March 19th of this year. The...