05. same difference - Sick Sacraments
05. same difference Still staring, delving deeper into her apathy, Dee went through her daily ritual. No certain time to get up. She would leave her bed when she could not sleep anymore, make a cup of freeze-dried coffee, feed the cat, read the Fresno Bee, attempt to solve the Wee Jumble cryptogram puzzle, and contemplate doing her morning exercises while playing solitaire and waiting for the mail to arrive. After the day’s climax, there was lunch, an excuse to drive the automobile somewhere, buy something needed for the household, pick up Martin’s suits from the cleaners or stop off at the nursery, the garden, the trash, the neighbors, then dinner. Local and national news at six, a glass of wine, prime-time television, evening snacks, another red wine, robe, late night snacks, late night talk show, late night in bed. Dee sat and shat, wondering if the noise she was hearing meant that some in...