Tag: drink

As my eyes rolled over the simple meals offered, my mouth let out: "Forget it all." It was more of a mumble than anything, but she heard. She cocked her…

Coughing, growling, I cleared my throat. "Water," I begged in a whisper. A pleasant stream of pleasantries poured from the waitress as I sat upon a stool and as she…

As I walked over the black pavement, I felt the heat double. The sun above, cooking me and the road, the road below, hot as a frying pan, and I…

The dusty road went on into the desolate plain, tapering until it fell out of sight in the far haze of heat which separated the clear, blue sky from the…

There is a melancholy air in the noises a bus makes when it parks: a hissing; then the engine dies. You step out of this monster you've been riding in,…