can i offer you a nice egg in this trying time
ShortStory 3,043 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
"Matt tells the waiter he’ll have his eggs over easy. They come back scrambled, a neat glistening pile framed by perfect triangles of toast, a lacy froth of hashbrowns lurking across the plate. He doesn’t notice he’s chosen to move until he’s already halfway to the kitchen, adrenaline flooding his body."
Content warnings 1
suicide
Quasar links out; the story lives on Uncanny, where the author gets the click.