Start your day a half-hour later from when your alarm was supposed to go off.
Slot two thin slices of whole grain (because you’re trying to eat healthier) into the cheap toaster you received from your mother last Christmas. Struggle to push down the stuck handle for one to two minutes. Shake the toaster violently until you see fit to chuck it at the closest drywall surface. Forget it’s plugged in when you go to throw it and slip. Settle your ribs onto the tile finish as hard as you can.
Debate crying.
Cry.
Get up and repeat it all tomorrow.
Sounds like our second hand toaster! Note to oneself… must add to Christmas list. A nice one to read on my morning train journey 🙂
So good, amazing work!!! Conveys so much in such short time, brilliant writing <3333
something tells me this isn’t about toast…or maybe it is! maybe one of these days the toaster will work and you’ll actually get toast! you may still cry though but that’s because the toast is so good!
Such a simple task lovingly crafted into an immersive experience 🙂
such great writing!!! could feel the care put into this just as much as i could feel the pain of trying to get a toaster to work!!!
I never knew toast could be such a great allegory for my life frustrations and failures. Amazing job!
Wow I’m craving some toast right now all of a sudden…
Love how you capture the spirit of perseverance through this piece, keep up the amazing work!
I have never related more to a short story! Always gotta repeat it all tomorrow.
I feel like everyone’s had a day like this, even if it doesn’t include toast or toast products. Gave me a laugh, nice work.
I particularly love the line towards the end: “Settle your ribs into the tile finish.” It sobers the reader for a moment from the humorous language, and lets them peek behind the curtain to the core of it. A short tale of hunger pains and how to cope— I love it!
Nice! Like what you said without saying it-how making toast is a cover up for the struggle of achieving a sense of normalcy and conventional success.
This toast conveys daily monotony… I love it
A simple and funny way to highlight a universal experience of the daily struggle to keep going.
I like how this story uses failing to make toast as a metaphor for life and cyclicality. It conveys a relatable experience in the way that will be uniquely different for every reader.
I love the detailed visuals, the slapstick is so vivid in so few words! The philosophy 101 student in me is thrilled by the concise depiction of absurdism, and the child in me loves breaking things that piss me off, so really speaking to me here.
Relatable. It’s not really a morning unless you set five different alarms for 10 minutes apart.
Well done! The frustration of the ordinary things that are supposed to be simple.
Ditto to the other comments. Brilliant
This piece made me chuckle. Great work!!