Metamorphosis
C hapter One A cold cigarette is lit as the background fades in and out, a bustling New York street filled with many individuals, middle class, empty, and covered in scraps as if homeless. The camera pans out to reveal the man who lit the aforementioned cigarette, Johnny Wells, a warm drink of water in a brown bowler with his extremities covered by a black tweed coat . There is a string loose from Johnny’s coat’s elbow, long enough to be a jacket of its own. Johnny walks away down the sidewalk going the opposite way to the direction in which most people are walking, causing many to look at him with frustration and contempt. His teeth glimmer in the grey sun, and Johnny, with vain care inserted, slips into a brick building marked FLORAL SHOP, PSEUDO. The man smiles and observes the shop in front of him. There are many racks covered in flowers of every type, especially those that are pink and red, as the community maintained a certain sexual attraction to those colours,...