Blog Post #1- The day started with

The day started with anagrams. A well-mannered, deep-chested man in his 20’s laid on his bed staring up at a phrase etched into his ceiling. “I was here” the phrase read. He found it pointless to carve such a phrase into the ceiling without a signature. “George was here” or “Harry was here” would’ve been more appropriate. His brain anagrammed the words to “Where as I” and “I saw here”, and a couple other phrases which made no sense. How fitting, he thought, since nothing in his life made sense at the moment.

The man in question was Elwood Clark. He was a grocery bagger from Clayton, and you could say he was in Foxberry on vacation. His life was acutely unremarkable in every way, as was his personality. He was 21, and he would be 22 in December if he wasn’t going to die. But he was, and although you might think someone so close to death would be afraid, Elwood felt impartial towards living or dying. Just as he felt impartial to everything else in his life.

That particular morning, he had awoken at 4:00 am to the sound of loud rain pounding on the window of his new apartment. It hardly could’ve been called a new apartment considering its cracked ceilings, old brass doorknobs, and strange sounds coming in at odd hours in the night. His room was dark and empty, and his mattress was bare and old. It squeaked whenever he moved, even when he breathed. Between the bed creaking and the storm, Elwood decided sleep was a lost cause. He rose from his bed and found he suddenly had a strange craving for blueberry pancakes, so he set out for the Breakfast in Bed Diner.

Reader, there are many moments in time which alter the trajectory of our lives. Most of us do not recognize these moments as they happen, as that is the way of the unpredictability of life. Elwood Clark did not know that this was one of those moments. After all, his life up until this point had been drab and uneventful, why should the rest of it be any different?

Well, it took 21 years and 10 months, reader, but Elwood’s life was finally about to get interesting.