Daily story, September 18, 2025

I opened my eyes and the world glugged in, like water through a bottleneck. There was too much needing to come out for it all to come in at once. I had got so good at sleepwalking I used every hour of the day: while I dreamed, I cleaned the flat and prepped meals for the freezer and sometimes picked up a night shift. From time to time I found socks in the cutlery drawer, cornflakes in the soup. From time to time I got fired. But I never went hungry.