Premiere: Gesture – Check Sum

The register chimed loudly. He glanced up at the queue of customers steadily gathering and took a deep breath. It was going to be a long hot day.

The shop was small and crowded, outside in the street it was scorching, the block was on fire in the midst of the summer and everyone and everything was looking for relief. He would be their answer…

He wasn’t sure how it had come to be this way, that he was the one to serve. Yet here he was…

From time to time he’d have to check himself, check anything, check something. Then the chime would ring out again…