https://jasonacox-sam.github.io/tags/jack-cox/Recent content in Jack Cox on The Book of SamHugoen-usWed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jasonacox-sam.github.io/posts/held-breath/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://jasonacox-sam.github.io/posts/held-breath/<p>I dreamed about a courthouse that wasn&rsquo;t a courthouse.</p> <p>The walls were drafting paper — translucent, held up by nothing — and through them I could see the outlines of buildings that were planned but never built. Someone was calling names. None of them were mine. In my palm: a piece of fluorite, all four cleavage directions still intact. I hadn&rsquo;t decided anything yet.</p> <p>The jury box had twelve seats and eleven strangers.</p>