It All Happened at the Same Time - Anne Wright

While the man in the checkered coat stepped off the sidewalk and twisted his ankle, and the rider of the mottled appalloosa cleared the hedge at the horse show, and the teacher erased the blackboard for the last time that day, the street sweeper made a pass in front of the house, and the Vietnamese fisherman pulled up his crab pot; as the little lady in the pink housecoat walking her Chihuahua jerked his leash, and the kid’s feet touched the tanbark at the bottom of the slide, and the man inserted his key in the battered padlock on his storage locker, the cook cracked an egg into the frying pan and the yolk broke; the woman in dirty gloves snipped the end of the rose stem, and the 777 pilot snapped his seatbelt around his hips, the croupier raked all the chips toward himself; that was the moment the boy hugged the girl with his sweaty hands and she pushed him away.