I turned back to the mirror. On the other side, Dr. Venn was screaming into a radio. Orderlies ran.
“I say things that don’t fit the approved lexicon,” I replied. 092124-01-10mu
It wasn’t a sound. It was a presence. The Greeks used mu as a letter. The Japanese used it as a concept— mu meaning “unask the question.” But in the facility, mu stood for memory unit . Ten mu, ten days. Each mu was a small death. I turned back to the mirror