Ten.One Thousand, Two Hundred & Eighty-Four

1. Already time?

2. Cold V8 juice. Dark skies. Water.

3. Ghosts in the trees, that’s what the fog looks like.

4. I get only a thin rectangle of words onto the screen before I need to make breakfast. But it

5. We get a few rounds of UNO in before they have to leave for school.

6. Once I get to the bottom of the hill, I turn the volume up, way up.

7. “This time, it only took me one minute to get out of the driveway,” I say. He chuckles. These days, getting a teenager to laugh at your corny jokes is the highlight of the day.

8. Oh boy. I hope this dude knows how this post sounds. But why does Nextdoor always tell you more than you want to know?

9. He makes the brownies almost by himself.

10. The dialogue in this is the worst.