Wake up my, man.

Hey. Can you hear me? Wake up.

The man turned away. Looked at his partner who was smoking a cigarette and said, I don't think he's getting up.

He'll get up, the smoker replied.

The man resented this about his partner. Always unexplainably confident. He quit asking for reasons because...

The  dreams got me higher than  cocaine . It was good that I finally fell asleep, I thought. Or I dreamt. Whatever it meant to think in a dream.

I like the feeling of coke. Best way to describe it is like a hit streak in high school. What I mean...

The company was late on its rent . There was nobody to resolve the issue so they assigned it to an  intern . However the intern didn't take care of the issue and so the startup was getting kicked out of the office. Not because the building they rented a...

Mark sat at the park bench alone. Besides the odd day when a stranger gifted him their company he sat alone. It had been this way for 12 years now. Time flew by even though his days felt slow. Now that the end was near he wished the days would...

Roger got his coffee in ceramic mugs. He understood why someone taking their coffee togo would defer to paper. What he couldn't understand were those who sat at the cafe drinking from a paper cup.

No way he was going to pay big bucks to drink coffee without his lips...

Something is missing, I told myself. Something is missing, I thought again.

Insane how much we repeat a single thought until its noise becomes drowned. Then no longer can the thought be heard. Instead it has become belief . One that we no longer can question for we no longer are...

Sam ran the  cafe like a home. It was made easier by the fact that he and the wife ran the cafe together. That along with the fact that their  Apartment sat on top of the cafe. Growing up in the  suburbs , Sam had never imagined he'd be living...

Roger had no idea what his 2 PM coffee companion did with his life. Although they met every weekday for in depth conversations he never asked about the details of the guy's life. Strange how that worked. It seemed more the case with  men than  women . The ability to...

In the afternoon he went to Roger's. No matter how busy.

Even in the midst of the  IPO and he was working 16 hour days, he made time for  coffee at Roger's.

By that time he'd already had double the average coffee consumption of a normal man in  Westcity .

He was abnormal....

I thought of  World War I . When young men were scorched in trenches at the hand of industrialization 's first war. The  birds chirped and sung alongside the machine guns and artillery blasts. They could be heard during the quiet times.

But for a 19 year old volunteer who grew...