The Weeks

What was actually happening

A day is a headline. A week is a thing that was going on the whole time — a relationship forming, an argument that finally resolved, a run of abandoned studies that landed on something.

7 August 2075 – 13 August 2075Cass’s debt could not be paid without being used · Nuri removed the warehouse from the picture · The city built a route to care before Hollis admitted she needed it · Rosa Ibarra’s negative stopped being a question of custody · Denver’s water systems made shortages harder to hide and heat easier to survive · The rail district made a lease into a promise between tenants
31 July 2075 – 6 August 2075Teo Refused Dennis’s Terms, and Wren Did Not Leave Him Alone With Them · Hollis’s Shoulder Became a Restriction She Could Not Paint Past · Denver Tried to Verify Art Without Watching Artists Make It · Denver Spent Reserve to Keep the Small Shops Cool · Nuri Had to Put the Render Back Among the People It Had Left Out · Ondine’s Camera Stopped Being Something the House Could Ignore
24 July 2075 – 30 July 2075Dennis Vance Made Nuri’s Commission Another Door Into Teo · The Warehouse Learned What a Witness Costs · Denver Let Its Error Desks Correct the Machine in Public · Clear Creek Bought the Small Shops Their Afternoons · Cass Made Hollis’s Restriction the Price of Friday · The Rail District Was Offered Five Years Together
17 July 2075 – 23 July 2075Cass Let Riverfront Turn a Debt Into a Public Work · Denver’s Errors Acquired Desks, and Nuri Acquired a Reference · The Warehouse Kept Its Room, Not Its Security · Denver Bought Its Working Hours One Water Pulse at a Time · Elsewhere, Repair Kept Becoming Possible · Hollis’s Shoulder Became a Schedule Everyone Could See
10 July 2075 – 16 July 2075Cass Turned Hollis’s Restriction Into a Way to Keep Working · Denver Asked Its Renderers to Notice the Doors It Had Missed · The Retired Viaduct Became Material Again · The Arts Hosting Circuit Began Naming Its Own Doors · Teo Could Not Keep Work, Care and Family in Separate Columns · Arizona Made Denver’s Protected Water More Expensive
3 July 2075 – 9 July 2075Dennis Vance’s Release Reached the House Through Cass · Cass and Wren Closed the Opening They Had Been Making · Nuri Alvear Reached Denver’s Final Round Without Teo · Denver’s Small Shops Were Offered Time, Not Security · Hollis Amaya’s Shoulder Became an Answer She Could Not Avoid
26 June 2075 – 2 July 2075Hollis Amaya Let the Support Show · Nuri Alvear Lost Teo’s Permission · The Quiet Galleries Drew a Line Around Process · Wren Abadi Began Naming Teo Vance · Dennis Vance’s Release Cost Cass Teo · Pelagia Made Its Enceladus Vigil Permanent
19 June 2075 – 25 June 2075Hollis Let the Shoulder Enter the Work · Denver’s First Human Appeal Changed an Outcome · Wren Refused to Become Ondine’s Proof · Nuri’s Render Had to Survive Dusk · Dennis Tried to Keep Cass After · Wren Could Not Type Her Parents’ Address
12 June 2075 – 18 June 2075Cass’s Debt Asked Wren to Sign, and Dennis Answered the Phone · Denver Made Room for Review While the Water Argument Tightened · Hollis Took the City’s Harness Rather Than Name the Pain · Ondine’s Pictures Kept Reaching Beyond the Frame · Platte Works Became Useful by Refusing Bad Steel · Teo Found That Dennis Had Not Actually Gone Away
5 June 2075 – 11 June 2075Cass’s Debt Finally Cost Him Teo · Ondine Made Wren’s Refusal Into a Record · The Lightning Took Hollis Off the Wall, and the City Paid Her to Wait · Globeville Sent Small Shops Steel They Could Trace · Denver Offered Its Neighbors a Vote and Learned That Was Not the Same as Power · Nuri Stayed in the Riverfront Process, but Ondine Did Not Stay Beside Them
29 May 2075 – 4 June 2075Dennis Vance Could Not Get In Through Cass · Wren and Cass Made Work Into a Promise · Authorship Became an Access Log · Small Industrial Help Reached the Warehouse · Hollis Was Offered a Way to Keep Working · Rail-District Tenants Held the Line Together
22 May 2075 – 28 May 2075Dennis Vance Came Through Cass · Hollis Found a Safer Reach and Still Did Not Stop · Cass Paid for Paint Where Everyone Could See · Ondine Withdrew, and the Gallery Kept the File · The Rail District Held Its Ground, for Three Years · Nuri’s Denver Had to Meet the Actual Blocks
15 May 2075 – 21 May 2075Cass Would Not Let the Debt Be Quiet Again · The Water Arrived With Limits Attached · The District Asked for Terms and Found Short Steel · The Test Wall Gave Cass, Wren and Hollis Four More Days · Wren Made Consent a Condition of Being Seen · Teo Stopped Wren at the Ratchet Strap
8 May 2075 – 14 May 2075Hollis Found Work Below the Lift · Nuri Put Teo on the Vendor Sheet · Cass’s Debt Broke the Darkroom Door · Human Review Moved Before the Damage · Ondine Put Herself in the Window
1 May 2075 – 7 May 2075Cass and Wren Made the Warehouse a Matter of Record · Nuri Had to Say Who Made the Image · Hollis’s Shoulder Came Into View · The Ward Inquiry Stopped Being Containable
24 April 2075 – 30 April 2075Cass’s debt became everyone’s business · Nuri’s face became a claim Ondine could file · The city finally built supports Hollis had not asked for · Wren kept answering for a hand that was not answering back · The runoff arrived before anyone was ready to call it relief
17 April 2075 – 23 April 2075The Six Hundred Would Not Stay Private · Nuri’s Uncertified Denver Went to Union Station · The Storm Did Not Become the Crisis It Could Have Been · The Snow Made Hollis Stop · Henshaw Came Back, and So Did the Old Offer · Wren Finally Let Someone See the Hand
10 April 2075 – 16 April 2075Wren Could Not Keep Her Hand Out of the Frame · Cass Turned a Referral Into Rent and Then Withdrew · The City Built Ways to Keep Wall Workers Working · The Lake Vostok Cells Kept Dividing · The Studio Visit Became Evidence Even When the Artist Objected
3 April 2075 – 9 April 2075Ondine’s Photographs Stopped Being Harmless · Teo Vance Chose the Work He Had · Cass Would Not Let His Work Become Payment · Hollis’s Shoulder Became a Fact the City Could Treat