She could still smell his ink-stained calluses despite the hands succumbing to soap and ashes. Ashes that begat a ceremony of once-neighbours and uncles. Uncles that begat a wake of cheese and stale Saladas...
StepLit in Dunedin is the story of Susan who climbs the 279 steps of Jacobs Ladder, and how she first climbed these steps because she was young and she could, and now she climbs them because her doctor tells her so. Each word of the story was written using white pavement chalk on each step, so the reader reaches the last word of the story and step of the staircase at the same moment as Susan.
The story of StepLit can be read here.
