Style 20, the File. Round 2

Dave's note on round 1, applied: pick a lane. The stamp landed on the desk, the folder, the tab and the card at once, which nothing in real life does. The lane: THE STAMP GOES ON THE CARD. The slip is the document, and a document is what gets stamped, so the stamp sits inside the slip's edges above the typing, on every card, folder or envelope. The other lane you named, the folder's top corner clear of the tab, is built on two cards at the end to rule against: FL-folder-lane and FL-folder-lane-2, where the stamp sits on the folder to the left of the tab and the slip moves down under it, touching nothing.

What to rule on. The lane: the stamp on the card (the first seven) or on the folder (the last two). Then the tilt, four degrees, or square. Pass or note by name.

The stamp on the card, then the other lane

**FL-close**CLEAR TO CLOSE in red across the folder and the slip: what this took, forty-four days first call to keys.

**FL-contract**UNDER CONTRACT: the open house funnel, nine days on market.

**FL-approved**APPROVED in green: pre-approval in hand before the first showing.

**FL-confidential**CONFIDENTIAL: what your neighbor’s house sold for. Text me the address.

**FL-overpriced**OVERPRICED: sixty days and counting. The fix is not a new photo.

**FL-ooo**OUT OF OFFICE in navy: Thanksgiving, at the table with the phone face down.

**FL-envelope**APPROVED on the kraft document envelope.

**FL-folder-lane**THE OTHER LANE: the stamp on the folder, top-left, clear of the tab; the slip under it.

**FL-folder-lane-2**The other lane again: OVERPRICED on the folder.