INVENTORY OF WHAT THE RING TOUCHED 1. The inside of a soap dish, briefly 2. The lip of a bedside table where it rolled twice before settling 3. A pocket lining (corduroy, left side) — 2019 to 2021, intermittently 4. The fourth finger of the left hand, continuously, except: a. dishwashing b. kneading dough c. one afternoon in a hospital corridor when hands were too swollen 5. The space between two couch cushions (unconfirmed, searched) 6. The ceramic edge of a bathroom sink at 12:19 AM, maybe 7. The underside of a pillow (checked) 8. The inside of a coat hung on the hallway hook (checked) 9. A child's palm, holding it up to a window to see light pass through 10. Nothing, now — touching only its own absence, which is to say the air where all ten surfaces still expect it