Pawn -2020-2020 95%

The dash was never a duration. It was a loop.

And the pawns are still waiting to be moved. You can’t buy back a year that never ended. Pawn -2020-2020

The protagonist, (a deliberate echo of both chess pawns and Raymond Chandler’s detectives), is not a hero. He is a passive piece. As the world outside his shop descends into lockdowns, supply shortages, and a blur of screens, Marlow becomes the reluctant archivist of a collective meltdown. The dash was never a duration