Wake up late. Have breakfast. Turn on the TV. News on. "Oh, another mass shooting." Finish breakfast. Open iPad. Social media. Yelling. Screaming. Crying out.
A void.
Check fantasy. Put in Frank Gore or Javorius Allen? It's Allen's week to make big plays. "Ha." Change channel to football. Watch football all day. "Breaking News" scrolls across the bottom of the screen. Twenty-six dead. Twenty more injured. Church shooting. "News?"
My team won today. Fans bled green. Metaphor. My team will make the playoffs. I'll see about the Super Bowl. Turn off TV.
Open laptop. Open XCom 2. Play as a human resistance force. Defeat enemies from a different world that have infiltrated Earth's world order. Stop them from producing more enemy aliens using gene therapy on humans. Prevent a horrible end to the world. "Unfamiliar."
Turn on TV for night football. More news on shooting before. Trump tweeted. Predictable. "Let me guess: Thoughts and prayers?"
Crack open a beer. Football back on. Need Crabtree to do well. Game is exciting.
Relax.
Open iPad. Social media. Posts about shooting. Posts about shooting. Posts about shooting. Mental illness. Poor guy. White. Gun laws. People fighting. Fighting a fight. Quicksand. Powerless. "I think I'll see my parents tomorrow."
Game's about over. "But is it, really?"
Bed time.
- PatInTheHat
