Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#1

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As Fred Volume stared down at his orange juice, while chewing on an almost stale corn muffin, he followed a fallen crumb floating clockwise on the juice surface.

It was at this moment that he realized that orange juice is really more a yellow than an orange.

As pleasant and as startling as this discovery may be, it was only a minor addition to the already established world of yellowness which Fred absorbed daily.

Daily, monthly and in two days for up to a whole year. He was obsessed with yellow and he did not know why.

He got up to leave Lemon's Diner and made sure to collect at least two yellow Lemon's Diner napkins after leaving a tip. For the past 363 days he followed this same 7 a.m. routine. The corner grocery near Spring and Broadway would be his next stop.

Exiting, he paused to trace the sound of a horn and he looked over his shoulder only to fix his focus on a yellow cab.

As he placed his yellow iPod earphones over his graying thirty-five year old hair he noticed two women exiting the cab.

They both were wearing yellow.