Who Does?... A Short Story
They always told her she worries too much. That she should relax. Everything will “be ok.” Well, what makes everything ok? She does. She wakes up and makes her bed. Starts the coffee machine and then brushes her teeth… only to have the cup of coffee reversing the effect of the whitening toothpaste she purchased at CVS. It was on sale. Water before or after the toothpaste touches the brush? That seems to be the predicament in the media these days. How does it happen for all of these people? One question appears in their mind and in the next second, it has consumed my feed. Is social media good or bad? Maybe it depends on which side of it you’re on. Now she is stressed again. What should she wear? She looks into the mahogany wood mirror leaning against the sturdy wall of her relatively large room. She still lives in her hometown with her family, which could be said is also relatively large. The mirror. Is that what she looks like? What did she look like yesterday? Last week? Last month. ...