/authors/tiedupsince84/ Recent content in Tiedupsince84 on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/47898/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/47898/ <p>I left home as I do any other morning, wrapped up in my thick black coat and scarf in a vain attempt to shield myself from the winter breeze. Hopping hastily into my car on the slippery drive I scurry off to work in the next town just a few miles away from here. I desperately blow into my hands trying to invite even the faintest warmth into my shivering fingers, cussing the weather and all the while disliking the fact I had to go to work in such abnormal temperatures. Little did I know what pleasures were in store for me by the end of the day and how blinding cold could turn into blazing heat in a matter of hours…</p>