The Mirror You Avoid in the Morning You catch it for a fraction of a second before your brain catches up. Not in the bathroom

The Alarm Goes Off and You Are Already Lost The alarm goes off and before you are awake, your hand has already moved. Not because

The Morning You Forgot You Were Going to Die You wake up and the day is already waiting for you like a sentence you didn’t

The Quiet Scandal of Wanting Less Someone asks you what you want from life, and for a split second — before the trained answer rises

The Hunger That Has No Name You got what you wanted. Sit with that for a moment. The promotion came through, the relationship settled into

The Weight of Waking Up There is a specific hour — somewhere between three and four in the morning — when the mind surfaces from

The Morning You Forgot Why You Got Up You wake up and the ceiling is just a ceiling. Not threatening, not beautiful, not anything in

The Altar You Never Questioned You walk into the room and you already know what you will find before you see it. The smell reaches

The Morning You Stopped Asking Why You wake up and everything is fine. That is the problem. The alarm goes off at the same time

The Funeral You Attended Without Feeling Anything You stood at the edge of a room full of people who were crying, and you felt nothing.

The Morning You Already Know The alarm goes off at the same time it always does. You already know this before you open your eyes

The Stranger at the Counter You are standing at a counter, waiting. Maybe it is a coffee shop, maybe a post office, it does not