The Kitchen at Empire Chinese Restaurant

Shara has been tasked with walking her father home from empire chinese. The dining room is packed but no one is chinese except the waiters, who all seem to have the unhappiness of their lives taken out on customers. Shara spends a not unpleasant few minutes being drilled about school and her ambitions for college. Her father's colleagues would holler as much to tease her father as to celebrate her. She is his toil paid back. None of the other men have children. Each socks his money away for a future that is different from her father's. Because he has her and her sister,. Her father no longer has a future.