On the road  Imogen Howe only thought about necessities.  gas and  food the only things that would keep her going. It had been about ten hours she thought. Already going through her phones battery, for some reason she noticed it getting darker. It woke her up.  sleep the next thing...

He found  Georgio's on the way to where he thought Max's was. He didn't want to get pulled over by the cops. So drove into the parking lot. He could hit the diner for breakfast the following day.

Right now he needed some meat, cheese, and bread to soak up the...

Tulsa didn't think of all this as a power. She thought about it once after her friend Ashley said quite simply.

"Woah, thats like a super power."

She wasn't convinced, she also thought a super power had to be used for something, where this is just how she likes to live...

Bob had a genetic condition. When he ate  food he could hear the  fat cells filling with lipid. He used to worry that other people could hear it to. Nobody else could. They could clearly see, however, that Bob did seem to convert food to adipose tissue near instantly.

His cardiologist...

It was a sunny day, unusual. The sun shown in through the window, but the leaves outside were still changing. Jimmy was sitting on a stool that he made last time he was here. He fashioned out of found wood, he took a palate and part of couch from the...

His days moved slow since the explosion. Still avoided the desert. He avoided running into people he knew. Avoided getting to know someone too well. Being a ghost had been his preference. A fact unobvious to him until he fell into enjoying someone's company.

He caught himself waiting by the...

Max Lambert hated eating at the diner after his shift. After sizzling bacon, frying toast, and wiping sweat dripping off his forehead so it didn't get into the customers' hash, the last thing he wanted at 7PM was to spend another minute at the diner. Even if the meal was...

The tests showed neither conclusive evidence for good or bad. Basically he wasn't going to die from it anytime soon. But the  doctor s weren't willing to say that he would not die from it. He could still die from it. The numbers were still high. But they weren't so...

Walter met his first girlfriend after moving to Westcity because of his habit of taking afternoon walks. No matter how hot it got he vowed to take a walk during the afternoon when his brain would be fried anyhow. No point in trying to pull of any deep work during...

There was  hair in my food. My friend told me it was bad, that they should give me a refund.

I didn't mind.

At least tell them he said.

Nah. I don't want them to feel bad.

Feel like they should give it to you for free, he said.

When I'm eating somebody else's food...

I wonder how much food we eat in a lifetime? Must be a massive amount. Literally tons.

Food isn't something Silicon Valley has figured out. Like we can't just connect ourselves up to an outlet or wirelessly and get fed. At the end of the day you still need to put...