Fiction and Drama Claire Baglin You have to be of age to mash the trash Aidan Pontarini, McDonald’s at Central Station . 2022, oil on canvas. 20 × 40". Photo by Cedric Mussano. T his one’s my all-time fave, it smells so nice. The front-room trainer holds the special-surfaces cleaner under her nose. I love it, I just can’t get enough, want a sniff? She juggles the cleaning products this way and that, pretends to spray a surface to show us how, but as she demonstrates all I can see is the tight blond bun behind her head, as if her brain had an annex back there. The trainer introduces us to the sink, the clean zone. This is where it all starts, she explains, and we trample the stray bits of food on the floor drain. Before sending us out front she takes us into the bathroom to teach us by example, pulls out a disinfectant for the sinks. She rubs at the sink with a counter cloth, that’s what it’s called, presses her breasts to the rim to get behind the faucets.…