household contents, form 9‑b. kept for insurance purposes. updated whenever I remember to check.
one (1) cast-iron skillet, handle always warm to the touch
a stack of mail addressed to "the previous tenant" — there is no previous tenant on record
forty-one (41) house keys, none of which open any door I can find
a pencil mark on the kitchen doorframe, recording a child's height, in a hand I don't own, two inches taller every year I haven't lived here
a tooth, recovered from the bathroom drain — not a baby tooth, and not fully grown, either
the smell of bleach, confined to the one room nobody in this house has ever cleaned
one (1) day of the week, simply missing — ask me what today is and I will answer wrong, with total confidence
a second set of footprints by the back door, always a half-size smaller than mine, always a little fresher
a voicemail from myself, time-stamped next Tuesday, that I have not recorded yet
a name I used to answer to, folded up small and kept somewhere I won't write down here
the section of the basement that does not appear on the blueprint, and the staircase leading to it, which also does not appear on the blueprint
the remainder of this entry has been removed from the record, for their own good