Word for Word: Etching

I’m in a writers’ group that meets on Zoom, though before the pandemic we met in person. Every week, we do a writing prompt: someone gives a page number, and our organizer picks a word from a huge dictionary. We write for five minutes. In this example, the word is: etching.

Born to be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery

I opened the yellowed antique book, and a scrap of paper fell out. At first I thought it must be as old as the book. When I picked up the scrap of…