Spent and tired -5minutefreewrite
For https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-55-5-minute-freewrite-prompt-spent-and-tired
He spent all his tired money at the laundromat. The sullen bills in his wallet were barely discernable from scrap paper, but the change machine managed to take them. He spent the vast majority on the washing machine, saved a little for the dryer, and spent what was left on the gumball game, where, if you pressed the buttons just right, you could win 3 gumballs instead of just one. He only got one gumball out of it.
There was a soda machine and a snacks vending machine, and a cappucino machine, but they all seemed overpriced compared to gumballs. Not that there was any nutritional value in a gumball, but there was the chewing, and that soothed him. And being soothed was the best he could hope for.
When it was all over, and he could put on warm, dry, clean clothes, he didn't want to leave. It was by no means an exciting place to be, but it felt safe, and watching dumb tv felt normal. The tv was in spanish, but that just meant he felt especially cultured, watching tv in a language that he didn't understand yet. Maybe he would learn.
There was no more excuse to staying, though, so he put his clothes back in the big garbage bag, and hoped the bag wouldn't make them all stink again right away.
It gives me a sense of loneliness. It's true, it's more detailed than usual and it surely requires ability to describe ordinary things like in your entry. It makes me wonder about all the invisible people that silently populate the borders of our lives..
I often wonder about them. How can there be 8 billion whole stories being written? Isn't that crazy? and all the ones that came before and that will come???
I kinda like this freewrite, more realistic than usual. You described well this homeless life fragment.
A very tactile and detailed painting of words! I really liked how you described all the little minutia that fill in the circumstance this guy is in. For some reason, the gumball bit just nails it for me, somehow.