Thursday, June 17, 2021

Today's writing

“No shit.” Danny is watching me, his jaw seemingly suspended half-open.

 

“Oh, come on. Like you couldn’t have predicted it.”

 

“Did you?”

 

In Berkeley there is a restaurant called Revival. Upscale place. We’ve been. It’s good. When the pandemic started, a mural went up on one of its outside walls: “We do this together,” it reads. Feel-good sentiment made to sell fancy food. The rest of us look warily at each other over our masks: for God’s sake, don’t breathe in my direction.

 

This moment kind of feels like that: one trying to drag the other into a story. I’m not having it. “Actually,” I say, “no.”

 

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