espresso

Westcity
jared's therapist as reply to Man

Abraham Kim
coffee Espresso Royale Baker Ave. body heat espresso cappuccino cold showers Keurig
It was the first cold morning of the fall. The summer must be over for good, thought Carol as she tugged her shirt trying to keep warm. Usually she got hot easily. Was the one trying to turn the thermostat lower. But today she had not anticipated this chill. Had...

Westcity
but quintuple as reply to But Quadruple

Abraham Kim
espresso Baker Ave. walking
Jared couldn't drink all four espressos. He looked into the cup. Guessed that he had drunk perhaps half. Decided he was too nervous. Looked both way on the street to make sure nobody was watching him. And dumped it out.

He was already a nervous guy. Had he drunk the rest...

His Life as reply to group b -> group a

Drew
espresso earth
Group A push Keith into a new rhythm he woke up at 4 before anyone else, ready a cold shower was all he needed to get on with it. He took now an  espresso neat sometimes iced. In a small glass the coffee shop kept just for him. They didn't...

Watched as reply to reminiscing

Drew
Spacecity espresso
Keith had gotten into a new rhythm in life. A new era. His new era could be described by his new drink of choice. A cappuccino, an espresso with foamed milk and then more foam. This café he moved next to did them nice. Well he didn’t really go any...

More Calories as reply to life city

Drew
espresso
What Cal wanted now more than ever was a doctors note. He told him he had what Marianna had, and the doctor said that wasn't possible. Then he told him maybe it was cancer what Keith's got but the doctor said that was also impossible but still ran tests. All...

Attention as reply to fake

Drew
espresso
When Keith was younger he played a lot. Outside mostly with two neighborhood kids, always playing the same games. One they just threw a frisbee across the road. You got a point if it landed on the other side's grass. Two if you skipped it on the road first. Keith...

beauty as reply to A walk in my hometown.

Abraham Kim
birds guns war birdsong claustrophobic parents Berlin espresso World War I industrialization
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...

Espresso as reply to meals

Drew
espresso
That might have been the reason they broke up Andrew thought. After the diagnosis the doctor told him there are options. And she said see there are options while scrolling through her phone don't worry. Andrew thought about this, and felt like he could see how much time he had...

Westcity
meals as reply to Always the Cowboy Never the Cow

Abraham Kim
cancer life Vietnamese espresso
Once he got stomach  cancer he began recounting how many meals he had had without ever being truly grateful. Now his time was limited. But everyone's time was that way wasn't it? Since the day they were born. Nobody lived forever. Although some people wanted to live as long as...

Westcity
waste city

oil gallons Starbucks espresso U.S. to-go cups employees daydreaming
George Bannister had read recently that the U.S. consumed roughly 18 million barrels of oil daily. He had been surprised that he didn't even know how many gallons of oil a barrel amounted to. He had simply gone his 40 odd something years accepting the barrel as a unit of...

PO Box 915
long lunches as reply to St. Vince's

Abraham Kim
smartphones electric vehicles espresso power sunglasses podcasts The Wolf 2010 global self-driving salmon
By 2010 the world had become unrecognizable. On the surface.

Peer deeper and you'd see how things were changing less.

The details were changing. smartphones , increasingly  global economies,  electric vehicles , and promises of  self-driving cars.

But what actually mattered had calcified further.

Sebastian thought this while sipping through the middle of his ...