The Hum in the Tooth
A Nonfiction Account of Vigil and Dissolution
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The Hum in the Tooth
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Narrated by:
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Susan Smith
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By:
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Cristopher Boult
A formally written, deeply introspective, and meticulously detailed account of one year spent working the midnight shift inside a vast Municipal Archive. Told through the eyes of a self-reflective narrator a method essayist this nonfiction work eschews conclusion and moral, focusing instead on the texture of quiet thought, the persistence of small insect life, the low-frequency hum of machinery, and the minute details (the scratch on a door, the stain on a marble floor) that reveal the building’s own slow, private life. It is an exploration of physical presence against profound absence, held together only by the constant, rhythmic failure of the human mind and body.
©2026 Cristopher Boult (P)2026 Cristopher Boult