The Bone the Universe Threw Me Today

Sometimes it's Monday, the very last day of the holiday season and you don't feel well. Your period has arrived with all it's accompanying joys and you're more than a little cranky at all the people who have the day off while you had to haul ass at 5am. (Since when is January 2nd a holiday anyway?) Your hair is totally out of hand, crying desparately for a haircut and your clothes-well, you don't own clothes that could help you out today, at least not that you could wear to work anyway. But then you spy it when trying to scare up some books for the front table. A new mystery anthology with a skeleton taking a jump shot on the cover- Murder at the Foul Line. "Wouldn't it be cool?" you think and then you see yes, he's in there. Your favorite crime writer has a newly published short story you didn't even know about. Sweet!

And then, suddenly, your day is a little bit better.