Monday, midnight. Not again.

“Hey, anyone up there?” the man on the street yells.

I open my curtains. The street is wet. The man paces in front of Lenny’s Pizza parlor.

I could use a slice of pizza.

“Go home,” I say. “You’re keeping me up, again.”

“I am home.”

Jennifer Lawson is a former Senior UNIX Systems Engineer with a BA in Motion Picture Technology, an MA in Instructional Design, and an MS in Information Security, as well as a former college radio personality.