There is no Year

Contents

What Else Could They Have Done?

Pretend to not be There

The Copy Mother, In Particular

Smothering, The Mother’s Knowledge of

The Copy Son, In Particular

How the Son Got Sick

Another Room on the Same Evening

The Skin of God

An Investigation

The Son’s Book

A Very Long Hallway

The Son’s Fingernail

What Took the Father so Long at Work

Q&A Re: the Father’s Car & House, etc.

What the Father did Then

The Son’s Phone

What the Mower Found

What the Son did with his Information

The Most Frequently Played Song on the Son’s Computer Before the Son Erased the Contents of the Hard Drive and Burned it and Buried the Computer in the Woods

What Was Beneath The Father

13-Dream Dream Sequence

Invocation—Invitation

What the Son Learned the Ants had Done

In a Daze the Son Remembers The Black Package He’d up Till now Ignored or Forgotten or Somehow just not Seen

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Infinite Reflection

Indications of the Manner by which you will Arrive

In the Sand Around a Hallway

Nothing You Ever, Nothing Nothing

Another Fucking Box

Tunnel in a Tunnel in a Tunnel (in an Eye)

Entrance, Passage, Gallery

The Father, Reconsidered

Antechamber, Second Antechamber, Shafts

Hi Hey There Hello

A Very Specific Wall

The House was Getting Wavy

Rememberemberer

That is Some Thick Stuff

Not a Word or Shape or Name

The Wanting Box

Where am I Where have I been Where are you

The Repeating Night

DoppelgÄNger Mantra

Copy of a Copy of a Copy

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Blake Butler

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