SandScript 2020

Maya Kendrick
VISUAL ART
Your Call is Very Important to Us
Midnight Oil
Photograph
Kimberly Laney
Greg sat on the windowsill of his second story apartment’s bedroom gazing out
at the complex below him, with a half empty water bottle in hand… He did this
almost every day and in doing so, had become familiar with the moves of his neighbors’
choreographed daily routines. As the sun began to set and the busy street roared with rush
hour traffic, the waitress from the breakfast place two streets down would gather as many
of the half empty water bottles and fast food wrappers from her car as she could hold, and
clumsily walk them to the dumpster, stopping to pick up the trash that fell out of her grip
after every couple of steps. Sometimes, she’d make it in time to run into Simon from the A
building when he takes his chubby Chihuahua, Uma, out to do her business. Around this time
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