Incline

About this work

The upper station is already down to a last-run notice. Fog swallows the cable. Grease lifts off the wire. Hanbyeol stands in the operator nook — thirty-one, short hair under a cap, neck warmer, gloves. She is married. Her husband waits at the downhill hotel for this car.

“Skip the middle station.” Get off at the downhill platform and the night ends as a terminus. Stay in the car and only the brake-lever cover goes back. The log keeps a terminus.