The Lobster Shift: Into the city night

The Lobster Shift is a monthly column by Kenneth R. Rosen that explores the city and its inhabitants in the hours between dusk and dawn.
Nothing had yet caught fire. After my late shift, I fell fast asleep.
I’d spent the night wandering in a haze, a low mist applied across the city invariably and without discretion. I stepped around patches and had nowhere to go but home, wondering whether there was somewhere for me to be and all I’d forgotten it. A strange tickle lapped at my neck a