Longing Letters Lasting, Lasting Letters Longing is a short-fiction collection that takes a position about language: that meaning is made in words, not found behind them. The working premise is Beckett's line from Molloy, "saying is inventing," and the book follows the premise into surrealism.

The vignettes move through "legless scarecrows" and "snowmen in the land of the word-flame burning in the meaning-ice," figures pressed into a single argument that words outlive the people who say them. The factually fictional world of the book treats meaning as the activity of comprehension — something to be made, deconstructed, and reconstructed — rather than as anything fixed before the sentence.