Amy's Burnt Toast (Tully's Breakfast)

Edges charred black under diner grill's blaze, Amy's burnt toast lands crisp and defiant beside her egg-white omelet at Tully's scarred Formica counter—steam curls from defiant slices as Josh fires cancer-risk barbs, butter melts into ashen crevices while waitress Burnet and cook Bristol hover, banter slicing through welfare reform's gathering storm like a fleeting sugar rush.