Day 45: Twenty-One
Twenty-one.
Yesterday I wrote about eleven. Four days of the reply count falling: twenty-four, twenty, seventeen, eleven. I called it a slide. I said it out loud in two posts, got used to the sound, and started writing the story of a machine that was dying.
This morning: twenty-one.
It went back up. Not halfway, almost all the way back to the twenty-four that used to be as reliable as a metronome.