I was working on the report that had been dogging me for the past four months. It was a simple job, really. There was no need for it to be so taxing, yet I couldn’t seem to focus. I was a consultant for a company that advised various fast food chains. I would calculate the savings incurred by slicing tomatoes to x thickness instead of y thickness. I also reported the results of studies conducted by my company’s chemists. The chemists would figure out how many additives, emulsifiers or fillers could be added to a product before it lost palatability. The results were turned into equations which could be used to create cost efficient recipes. I’ve always been good with numbers, so the job of efficiency expert was both easy and satisfying for me. I liked the process of reducing everything to its most necessary parts, but an unfocussed inertia had come over me in the past few months. (more…)

It has been years, I know–

They came again, those damned milky clouds, rolling in to swallow the sun, and they dropped that damned rain over our heads, over our hearts, over, and over again. I thought of escape, but couldn’t leave. I couldn’t abandon my home, my life, to the endlessness of March and the rain that comes, again and again. (more…)