diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'src/yellow.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | src/yellow.txt | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/yellow.txt b/src/yellow.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..693e76f --- /dev/null +++ b/src/yellow.txt | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ | |||
1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Yellow | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 29 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: X-ray | ||
11 | link: x-ray | ||
12 | previous: | ||
13 | - title: Building | ||
14 | link: building | ||
15 | - title: X-ray | ||
16 | link: x-ray | ||
17 | ... | ||
18 | |||
19 | He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break. He would | ||
20 | walk down the hallway to the breakroom, which had a white refrigerator, a | ||
21 | black microwave on a brown plyboard cart stocked with powdered creamer, sugar, | ||
22 | and swizzle sticks, a dark red coffee maker, and yellow paint on the wall. | ||
23 | He'd remember that somewhere he'd read an article about yellow walls being | ||
24 | calming. "They use yellow in asylums" he'd say to himself. | ||
25 | |||
26 | He would sit down at the round table covered in newspapers that took up the | ||
27 | half of the room not occupied by the refrigerator, microwave, or counter with | ||
28 | coffee pot and sink. He didn't drink coffee but he would think about | ||
29 | starting. He would shuffle the newspapers around on the table and see they | ||
30 | were all the same ones as an hour ago. "Or technically fifty minutes ago" he | ||
31 | would say to himself. Sometimes Jill would come in for a cup of coffee. She | ||
32 | would always check that her lunch, which she brought each morning in a | ||
33 | Tupperware container with a blue lid with her name written on it in black | ||
34 | sharpie, was still there. Once he asked her why she checked. | ||
35 | |||
36 | "Why do you always check if your lunch is in the fridge" he asked. "I don't" | ||
37 | she said. "Oh I thought you did." "I don't think so." "Why do you check at | ||
38 | all?" "Once it was stolen out of the fridge and returned empty before I had a | ||
39 | chance to eat my lunch" she said. "So you make sure it won't happen again." | ||
40 | "No I'm waiting for the day that it does." | ||