What up, homies. It’s Monday. Just in case you didn’t know. Hope your weekend went well.

I just spent a really long time working on this, so go read that (and thanks for voting, if you did).

Once you get back here, you can read something I wrote a little while ago. Which is this:

In a subway station, an old man drops a dime as he fishes in his pocket for ticket change. A few hours later, a woman and her two-year-old son stop to ask directions from the tollbooth guard. Unbeknownst to the woman, the son picks up the dime, puts it in his mouth, and spits it out before they walk away. Two weeks later, the boy becomes very ill, but is back to normal after two weeks of antibiotics.

Alison has been practicing for weeks to play Hermia to Robert’s Lysander. After the premiere, Robert introduces her to his boyfriend, Stephen, and she gets a weird vibe from the meeting. Later that night, reading alone at home, she is surprised to realize that it is jealousy.

Sarah is cleaning out her closet. Hidden in a box she hasn’t touched in years is a potholder she had decorated in third grade to give to her mother. Her husband comes home to find her quietly wiping away tears.

Mark is walking to work and sees twenty dollars on the pavement. He picks it up, looks around, and pockets the bill. When a homeless man asks him for change a block from work, he shakes his head and says he doesn’t have any money.

Jenny returns to work from her lunch break affair with her boss just in time to find her husband of fifteen years waiting for her. He welcomes her back from lunch and says he can’t find the keys to the toolshed. He borrows hers, kisses her goodbye, makes a copy on the way back home, and doesn’t suspect anything. The toolshed keys have fallen behind the kitchen counter.

There is a black leather wallet on one of the bleachers at a baseball stadium. It sits there until the fifth inning, until a girl walking by notices it. She sits down, picks it up, and checks it for money, IDs, credit cards, photographs. She looks around, and then watches the game for a bit. After a few pitches, she replaces the wallet without removing anything and walks away. The home team loses their third game in a row.

Jeremy takes a business trip, and stays in a hotel during the conference. On a whim, he wanders downstairs to the lobby and borrows a phone book to look up Angela Harvey, a crush he hasn’t seen in years, but heard had moved to town. The phone book does have one number for a Harvey, Angela, and Jeremy walks over to the courtesy phone and dials. It rings twice, and a woman answers. Jeremy hangs up the phone and stands there momentarily, then walks back upstairs, and watches a movie on the free cable.