Everyday
The alarm goes off. I have to wake up. I have to go to work. I stand up and follow my usual routine. I take a shower. I dress and I make a sandwich with ham and low-fat cheese. I don’t want to have heart problems like my father and my father’s father and his father before him. I put my stuff into my backpack. Same stuff as yesterday. I put the key into the keyhole with the usual difficulties and I am off.
I get to work. I read the every-day paper. I take a glimpse at the first page, looks like something is coming towards the earth, following its orbit, weird. I go back to my normal life, nothing feels weird to me. I have to write some sort of short story for my boss’ kid. What do I know about that rubbish. I’m an accountant. I deal with numbers. What a useless bastard. He cannot even do his own homework. I’ll do it later. I want to go out for a cigarette, some procrastination won’t do any harm to anybody. I go out. It’s raining, tell me something new. Damn, I forgot my umbrella. Ugh, there’s that horrible cat of the janitor. I hate him, he’s always walking around as if the building was his. No one ever says anything. Disgusting.
I go back inside. I walk towards my cubicle and on the way I walk pass the meeting room, it has a huge window. Something catches my attention, I go back, I look out the window, a rainbow, unusual. I look to the right, there’s a bug on the floor, upside down, struggling for his life. I look up, Verwandlung written on the blackboard.
Chava RIVERO
Photo of the front page: Mark SEBASTIAN
