SENSES WORKING OVERTIME

1. Nasty aftertaste following every meal 2. Blurry eye syndrome 3. Disturbingly frequent need to blow nose 4. Slight, but encroaching, deafness in one ear 5. Unsettling inability to come up with, among other things, sought-after words, titles, names Every day is a dark dive through the winter hours. Seemingly ceaseless rain speckles the window. At work I bubble like a watched pot; people lining up outside the glass front of my office, pacing ’til their turn. One needs an article proofread, another an HTML created, the phone rings and it’s the creation of emergency animated web banners on the...