The Price to Climb
“Danny! Get you head out of the clouds and get this order over to the family with the brat on four!”
The dream faded, and Chardonnay (Danny for short) Wilkins came awake. She sighed, and levered herself to sit on the edge of her increasingly familiar bed. In the dream, she had once again been working at the diner, dreaming of greener pastures and literally higher living.