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Grocery Shopping

Zombies, Hunter-gatherers, or No Self-awareness?

Connie Oz –

The cubicle jockey job is only a cover. Writer of poems, observations, and short stories.

October 18, 2014

Grocery shopping is perhaps one of my most vexing chores. I can't quite decide if grocery shopping is preparation for the zombie apocalypse or if I'm the only person in the store with any self-awareness. Most people at the grocery store already appear to be zombiefied.

Every time I visit the grocery store I start off with a . . .