Light Shop -2024- (2025)

Outside, the wind kept gnawing. But inside, inside was a different season entirely.

The third customer was a man named Henry. Henry was seventy-three, retired, and bored. Boredom had become a kind of weather for him, a low-pressure system that moved in and never left. He had tried golf, then woodworking, then a disastrous attempt at learning the ukulele. Nothing stuck. Light Shop -2024-