Garbage Man 2035

In a future where intimacy is disposable, one man hauls away the bodies nobody wants to admit they loved.

Bob pulled into the truck depot at 6:30 AM sharp for his next 12-hour shift. The putrid fumes of a hot and humid summer just starting to bake the musky stench off the sidewalks of the Southeast Metro. He punched at the keypad to start his shift and made his way to the decontamination locker, where his newly sterilized Cat 3 hazmat suit hung. He begrudgi…