/lit/ - Literature

Aunt Grace scoots her chair closer to where Paul is lying down and using his laptop. He checks his Facebook, then his email, and then his Facebook once again. He closes the lid of the laptop and places it on the floor next to him.

Aunt Grace places a giftwrap-covered package on Paul's chest and says, "This is a present that I bought for you."

Paul scrapes at the seams in the gift wrap with his fingernails and tears the paper in two. He sees the cover of a book called 'The Hunger Games.' Paul takes the book out of the "crinkly" wrapper. It's smooth and cold in his hand. Paul sits up on his yoga mat. He sets the book down on the floor and says, "Thank you."

Paul reaches to his left and picks up a plastic Whole Foods bag. He takes the container of organic kale and apple salad from inside the bag and places it on his bent knees. Paul takes a bite and contemplates the gift that his Aunt Grace had given him. He had heard of the book before and decided that he wasn't a fan.