Groceries for a Tough Week

Photo by Franki Chamaki on Unsplash — an interpretation of the setting, not the moment itself.

She put back the cheese, then the chicken, doing quiet math at the belt. The cashier scanned everything anyway and pointed to a sticky note by the register: “Someone paid it forward this morning. You’re it.”

This story was submitted anonymously. We wrote it down, because someone should remember.

— We Are Silence Dogood