she sat there with the disk whirring in her laptop's DVD player. the movie wouldn't play because of some internal flaw and she stared blankly at the computer screen. her bowl full of potato salad on the desk next to her frozen body. her chest rising and falling unsteadily her eyes glassy zoned out to another place.
the pills she's supposed to take to keep herself healthy sit on the desk next to her bowl of unfinished potato salad.