WHERE PEOPLE WAIT by Sara Tusek

a low-ceilinged square room with sturdy, outdated furniture and uninteresting vending machines where families wait for the surgeon's report

a bland, poorly-lit anteroom where job applicants wait for a summons by those who might hire them

a stuffy church vestry room crammed with a jumble of tarnished candlesticks and petrified wax droppings where the bride waits for the organ to strike up Mendelssohn

a tiny, bare room with three chairs where people who’ve been pulled out of the security control line at the airport wait to see if they are under arrest

the middle-of-the-night kitchen where one waits for the other to come home