glass of water
by Dennis Scharnberg
Eric sat in the shadows of the back porch, so he could eavesdrop on Butch and Gabe as they rattled on about this and that, but especially about somehow planning one’s mistakes, and about whether it makes more sense to spread them out evenly over time or to bunch them together (to get them over with).
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.