Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine #6

Work in Process Change into your last clean bra, the one with the janky underwire. pull Spanx over your Thinx, put on a power suit and grab a chocolate breakfast bar.

At the station, wait looking up at a sky the color of the sidewalk.

In the reflection of the train’s window, notice wrinkles around your eyes, but because all the good plastic surgeons are out-of-network, consider a crowdsourcing campaign for your Crow’s feet.

On the train dream of artisanally-named, CRISPR/Cas’d kids designed to like vegetables and do well in math.

At work get along with Matt until he shushes you in front of your boss’s boss.

Give him your trademark sloe-eyed, side eye before heading back to your Dilbertian cubicle to calm down with an adult coloring book.

Spend lunch rebunking the claim that a woman of a certain age is more likely to get killed in a hoverboard accident than get married.

At the afternoon meeting, think about your loser boyfriend at home on the couch drinking beer and pulling 360 no-scopes.

After work, hook up with Ahmed in his food truck but not before scarfing down an order of bitter melon fries.

Give The Moroccan Paradise Grill two stars on Yelp.

Later get squiffy painting sunflowers with friends at Cocktail & Canvas.

When it’s all over, Uber home screaming for your life as a pony-tailed grad student auditions to be the next Stig.

Back at home, crawl under the covers, hit CONTINUE WATCHING on Netflix and realize that you get to wake up tomorrow and do it all again and that is not nothing.

Lara Dolphin Lara Dolphin is a chocolate addict, slacktivist and determined dreamer. As a recovering attorney, prePA student and full-time mother of four, she divides her time between looking for lost Legos and breaking up pool-noodle-related combat.