Monday July 6th
The Midnight Pizza Shack is conveniently located on the corner of Highway 22 and Old Harrow Road. Proudly serving the citizens of Rotbone Ferry since 1966.
Pizza Orders from Monday Night July 6th.
Large everything, extra cheese, breadsticks
Alex is a nurse at Mercy General. The shifts are shit but the money is enough to pay for her and Mom and Teddy. She doesn’t see them that much these days. Mom puts Teddy to bed by the time she gets home. Mondays are half shift days though. Pizza night for the three of them. She looks forward to it every week. He tells her about video games, and she tells him about the wild stories from the hospital. She keeps the rough stuff to herself though.
Medium pepperoni and black olive
Dylan has been driving for 3 days now. His car is packed with a big duffle of clothes, his toolbox, and a battered copy of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. He isn’t sure where he is going but he just needed to get out. He couldn’t live like that anymore. He doesn't regret the last three years he spent with Charlie but he is also wiser now. He won’t make those same mistakes again.
He’s out of cigs but they don’t sell his brand in this town. It’s a good time to quit anyways.
Medium buffalo chicken, extra napkins
Crystal got laid for the first time last night. It was an awkward experience. Somehow she had expected to feel different. More womanly? More powerful? More grownup? She wasn’t sure what she had expected but not this sort of existential itch. She thinks maybe she deserves better than what this town has to offer.
Large meat lovers, breadsticks, extra parmesan packets
Conrad just got out of the local jail on bail. Fist fighting outside the bar. He says he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but really he found exactly what he was looking for. His whole life people have been telling him what a piece of shit he is. He doesn't want to be like this but he doesn't know any other way. It started when he was little, getting in trouble in class, getting beat for getting in trouble in class. It just seems like everyone else is doing fine, and he is constantly fighting an alligator inside of him.
He wonders if it would be easier to end it.
Small sausage and pineapple
Ben likes to sit on the river bank, make art, and share their pizza with the ducks. Overall life is pretty good. If you stay out long enough, you can see the stars come out and hear the fogs start singing. Ben likes the stars and frogs and the sounds of the water. Their mom tells them to go and make more of their life, but their life is already pretty full. Ben is slowly drinking in the beauty of this world and capturing it on paper.