Improv Challenge: Lonely, Winter, Friend, one object – A Blanket

In the dead of winter, when the days are short and the darkness comes early, my blanket is my best friend. It’s hard to leave those soft, snuggly, comforting arms for the bitter winds and the blinding snow that makes this already chilly world all the more lonely.

I do, however, because I know I have to. I need to pay the rent, you know? I gave up on the phone a long time ago, it’s not like anyone is going to call me anyway. I disconnected the cable TV too… who needs 1000 channels of the same old crap? Sitcoms where people pretend to be happy… soap operas where people play at being tragic, sad, in love…

The should live my life for a day… one more body on the assembly line… I go to the mall after work to try to make a connection… but people just walk on by. They have no idea who I am as they pass me by, they have no idea what I need… they have no idea what I have to going home to.

Darkness… my warm, safe blanket… shutting out the heartless winds of winter… to sleep, which is the only place I am free.