Seven days have come and gone without speaking to anyone or anyone speaking to me, despite seeing lots of people, riding in crowded trains and buses, going to laundromat, ATM, and grocery. My phone has been on, but no calls or texts except a robo-call in Chinese, (I don't speak a word of it.) and an email from Target, with whom I've never done business and never will.
I could vanish from the earth and not be missed. Should I break the silence or see how long it will last? When I leave my apartment everything seems odd, as if I've never seen it before, although it is simultaneously quite familiar. Maybe I'm in an episode of The Twilight Zone, for those old enough to remember the show.