What We Learned from This Morning’s Newspaper

15.

Don’t think I’m going to get to work at all today. Went out after breakfast to get the car and drive to the station and the car wasn’t there nothing was there just grey everything grey no lawn no shrubs no trees none of the other houses in sight just grey like a thick fog swallowing everything up at ground level. Stood there on the front step afraid to go into that grey. Went back into the house woke up my wife told her. What does it mean Bill she asked what does it mean why is it all grey? I don’t know I said. Let’s turn on the radio. But there was no sound out of the radio nothing on the TV not even a test pattern the phone line dead too everything dead and I don’t know what’s happening or where we are I don’t understand any of this except that this must be a very bad case of entropic creep. All of time must have looped back on itself in some crazy way and I don’t know anything I don’t understand a thing.

Edith what have you done to us?

I don’t want to live here any more I want to cancel my newspaper subscription I want to see my house I want to get away from here back into the real world but how how I don’t know it’s all grey grey grey everything grey nothing out there just a lot of grey.