Today I Ate a Biscuit

It began with a biscuit. Not a grand biscuit, nor a terrible one-simply a biscuit, unremarkable in every way but the one that mattered most: it was there.

From the first bite to the final crumb, this is the saga of that biscuit, told with the seriousness it never asked for and the depth it could never deserve. Along the way, hunger wrestles with hesitation, distractions arrive in the form of a knock at the door and phantom phone calls, and the great philosophical questions of our time are as...