Sanitation

Maria Santos, who just bought the Breakfast Nook, knows nothing about cross-contamination, pest control, immersion gauges or reduced-oxygen packaging. The new health inspector is every restaurant owner’s worse nightmare, but Maria needn’t worry. She’s got an ace up her culinary sleeve.Tunnels confine us, and confinements are traps. A person can find their vision narrowing on to the immediate, as though daily life becomes a distraction from a world that is becoming ever more harrowing. Inspired in part by "The Scream". 250 words.