My heart faltered as I reached the door to my apartment. Suddenly, the rush of years past washed over me. I looked to my old officemate and smiled, my keys jingling as I unlocked the deadbolt of my sturdy oaken door. I pushed in, beckoning Roberto into my cozy one-bedroom apartment. Roberto and I had met working for a call center. It’d been about four months since we worked together, but we never lost contact. And, sudden...

Cool air assaulted my nostrils as humidity caused my nostrils to flare. The stickiness caused me to frown as I walked up a shallow flight of stairs. I found myself overlooking a field. To my left, I spotted a path and headed in that direction. The grey gravel crunched underneath my thick-soled ankle boots. From my designer itabag, I pulled a joint and my lighter. I sparked the flint, causing the flame to catch the gas as...

“Enjoy the rest of your day!” I chirped, hanging up the call that my call center job had me dial out. Mindlessly, I sifted through the information relayed to me and finished the file I was working on, then moved on to the next. While working on this case, my mind wandered, though my fingers still did the necessary work for my boss to be happy. There had been some turmoil in my marriage of late. My husband and I had been f...