Things had not been the same since Chuck's therapist died.

Chuck's wife Linda thought this while drinking a coffee. It was already past noon. She usually never drunk coffee this late. But she'd woken up late. Things were different for her too. Not just for Chuck. Their home was in shambles.

Linda...

The sky was red when he decided.

If his wife wouldn't allow him to stop seeing the therapist. Then he would simply kill her. Dr. Carol was her name.

He drank the last of his hibiscus tea. It was a different red than the sky. His wife asked him with a smile....

"What?"

"Nothing. Just that. That's what my wife said."

You don't have to be happy all the time. It's something his wife said once. After he had lost his hat. And then shared that he was no longer happy. She said many things. But these words stuck with him.

Eventually they became not...

The man who had lost his hat on the boat. He had always been a supremely happy man.

The worst things could happen. He would take them in stride. Saw the positive side to anything.

It was a wet, chilly  New York afternoon. Jittery from half a coffee too much. Nursing a ...

He had packed one collared shirt. Although he would spend five days in  New York , he would only need to dress up for one of the days. The operation would need to happen swift.

The plan was to get it over with the next day. His phone rang. It made...

There was a feeling the entire time. From the Uber, to the airport, and finally in  New York . The feeling of being watched.

He'd spent so much of his time watching others so he knew what it felt like to watch. It was uncanny to feel what it was like...

Keith had never observed anyone who worked at the  Empire State Building .

Growing up,  New York felt like the center of the universe. And little Keith could not imagine a world where everybody in New York didn't work in the Empire State Building.

Of course he grew up and got over...

Today he felt different. Today he wanted to know more. He spied on The K Man. And it turned out. He didn't actually wear the same dirty pants. Keith saw from K Man's laundry room camera that K Man actually did wash his pants. The pants happened to have a...

Starvation. That's what people on the other side of the world faced. Keith read about it everyday in the news. He read a physical newspaper everyday with a cappuccino . Somehow K Man the barista convinced him to order a tall black.

The news felt less enjoyable alongside this abomination of...

Most people's lives, most of the times, were delusions. It usually wasn't until the end of it that anyone saw things truthfully. That's why Tulsa skipped the middle of people's lives. There was no point seeing the meaningless middle. It was all noise.  mind loops. Fixations on anxieties. What a...