Character Study
The man is tall, slender, with a trim and tidy beard, drinking warm milk out of a teal blue mug that says live laugh love in gold cursive on the side. The sunlight comes in through a window by the sink, now briefly covered by clouds, the room darkens. He turns to rinse out his mug. The dog stretches on a rug by the back door, the birds and squirrels have been quiet lately. A pile of bills sits on the kitchen table, they are polite, but patience is waning. He can feel the blood pressure rising, not his own, but that of his boss, in a slightly bigger house across town. There are weeds in the flower beds and the grass is too long. This is just life. He's trying so hard to live it.