01

I woke up again. There was a dim light shining in to my room. As I rose up from my bed I noticed a few dark clouds above. It's gonna rain, I thought. There was a pain in my back. I had to see Jerry again. Jerry is my doctor a good guy but, he's got some issues. He thinks that there was a Martian landing on earth billions of years before we set foot on the moon. He went on to say that all of our greatest theories, like evolution, were written in the sand by the Martians and we found them and it was imprinted in our brains as primates, therefore, it stuck with us until today.

I told you he's got issues.

I put my feet on the cold floor. I wish I had a carpet in there. I readied myself for work again, I am a drone at a computer company. I basically fill in the blanks in a sequence of scientific anomalies and rythms and stuff. I fill missing spots in it and send it to a server. I've been doing it for six years. I have no idea what I do, or what I contribute to.

I left the house and walked down the street to my office. This city is a dead zone. No one was around, no shops were open, nothing was moving, it was just me. In the middle of a large empty street. A metaphor of my meaningless existence in this world.

The office was basically the same, I walked in and made no difference. I punched in and sat down at my terminal. I received my files and began to work.

The mail boy walked by and tossed an envelope on to my desk.

Wonder what that is, I thought. I looked at it. The envelope had my name on it. That was all. I opened it up and saw a blank piece of paper, except for a block of gibberish in the middle of the page. It read:

d f e s
k o h s
o i x j
k u r t
y z i q

It didn't make any sense. I didn't really bother with it. I was hoping it meant that I was fired.

Lunch break had come early today. I stepped back in to the empty streets and crossed over to my apartment. I walked in sat on the couch and turned on the TV. I opened a bag of chips that I have next to my couch at all times. The news was on. I was still baffled about that random note I had received. The news was bland, something about the price of eggs going up again.

The channel changed by itself. There was static. I reached for the remote, but, then I noticed something. The screen flickered. Once. Twice. Three times. Then in the static I saw a face. Or what looked one. I heard something different in the static. It sounded like a voice. I heard my name. I moved to the screen trying to hear better.
The screen went black.
Then I heard it clearly.

"Read between the lines, 01."