forty-ninth

Annie and I got into separate elevators and raced each other up to the forty-ninth floor and then back down to street level.

In September, 2019, at the start of his forty-ninth year of incarceration, he will become eligible for parole again.

Meanwhile, some seven hundred feet below, on the forty-ninth floor, a business-operations manager named Matt was getting ready to head home.

On the forty-ninth day after Lynn’s death I opened all the windows in the alcove, even though it was raining.

On the forty-ninth shot, I am only slightly aware that I am moments from fifty.