She wanted to believe that she could write

She wanted to believe that she could write the way some
women sat knitting. She wanted to make something out of
peacefulness but worried that peacefulness was antithetical
to makefulness.

"Play," her friend said over the phone.

She asked the computer for a tarot reading and the computer
told her staves and pentacles: rest, happiness, joy, stability.

"Idle hands," she thought, but there was no one there to argue
with.

She laid her hands palms-up in her lap and waited.

[Rachel Zucker {1971- }, from 'Apartment', in The Pedestrians]