Welcome to the archive

This is the first entry. It exists so the shelf is not empty when the first reader arrives.

What follows on this site are accounts people lived through and chose to record. Names, places, employers, and dates have been changed. The shape is preserved. The witness is preserved. That is the point.

If you have a story you want to leave here, the door is the submission form. If you change your mind, the door swings the other way too — any story can be taken down on request.

Stories deserve witnesses.