Why I cried over a toaster.

And what the dead leave behind.

The Sunday Dreads Vol. 49

Our toaster stopped toasting.

And that was a problem, because a toaster has but one job: to take bread and turn it into a slightly crispier form of bread. And this toaster refused to do that. After ten years and 5 moves and several million pieces of toast, it had quietly retired.

It was no longer going to light from within with th…