Grocery Store Grave Shift - Part II
Friends, sex, and finding purpose on a grocery store night shift.
November 21st 8:44 p.m. Saturday night, I stepped off the bus into gently falling snow, surrounded by silence once the transit hissed, groaned, and pulled away. The Foodway’s sign lit the surrounding fog that swirled beneath the low hugging clouds. A floating red dot in my peripheral made me turn. Smoking a cigarette, Simon blended into the darkness beyond the streetlight; black clothes, black beard, what I assumed was bl...