// THE FIRST SLIP

Dover, PA. 0300 hours. The screw didn't fall; the universe tilted. I did not sweep the threads. I cast the alloy.

// THE GOLD SEAM

They called it a mistake. I called it the first stitch in the scar. Every fracture becomes the spine.

// THE CREW

Your name on the roster isn't ink. It's the hand that turns the wrench when the sky falls.