Paul Joseph Rivera-Carlisle

Cascading

Their phone chimed on the table next to them, almost simultaneously, a notification swung down from the top of their laptop screen, “Re: Project Proposal for Social Media Content Contributor”. A moment of contemplation, then hesitation, accompanied by that Hitchcockian psychological zoom, pulling all the possibilities and potentials forward, but dragging with it a feeling of unease. A decision had been made and, in a moment’s time, this episode that has been tucked away with crossed fingers, just out of mental frame in the peripheral zone of “cautious optimism”, would conclude, for better or worse. They read on.