Daybreaks: A Narrative Fiction

Seth lit another cigarette and turned on the television. There wasn’t much on at a quarter past four in the morning, but he didn’t feel much like watching television anyhow. No, he had turned it on because something in him told him to, needed him to. It could have been because he found its ambient light comforting. The way it helped to break up the silence that seemed to creep in during the night, procuring a stranglehold on his crummy little dwelling. Or, maybe it was a distraction away from the way his body throbbed and ached and his head continuously pounded from the lack of fluids. Or, maybe he just wanted to give his subconscious mind a chance to drone on something else. Provide it a way out of the depressing thoughts that he endlessly cared about him. But mostly, he knew he’d turned it on just to not feel so alone. He was scared. …show more content…
As he gazed upon the yellow orb as it shed its brilliance just over the eastern horizon, he already found himself nursing a beer and eating cold Spaghetti O’s out of a can. The lousy breakfast didn’t seem to bother him, though. He’d had worse while he used to watch daybreaks in the desert. It almost took him back there, but in a good way, one of the few fond recollections of his time overseas. And as he slurped down the tasteless noodles, if only for a moment, he felt somewhat normal again, at peace while he watched the star’s ascent. He even unwittingly let the briefest of a smile slip from him when he saw two early morning chipmunks chase each other around in circles as they zigzagged and scurried about and under his Dodge Stratus. One of the little critters even trying to hide from the other by hopping up atop a bald

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