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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - H13

11 Oct 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Healthy Shopper Market on the brink of opening   “My numbers better be good, ya hear?” Craig says in an old mobster’s voice, having approached Edgar in one of the grocery aisles. He has cocked his index finger and thumb in the shape of a gun,...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G13

10 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Office art installation: a metaphor for the hippie mindset?   The office water cooler sounds like a puking cat. These are the kinds of things one never notices — are maybe impossible to notice — in a more diffuse environment. He can’t even thi...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F13

9 Oct 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Dying days of a former superpower   Southside’s closing fills them all with unspeakable sadness. Many walk around snapping photos of what is now an even dingier location, with the product stripped from the shelves, and various case lights no l...

The factories

9 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments crywork

  Employees work hard to earn a salary that will enable them to support themselves. They live in small lodgings, leaving just the bare minimum for sleeping and hygiene, and food is brought in via vending machines as part of the dues they pay each mon...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E13

8 Oct 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

  This sensation of reliving a previous experience, altered just enough to make it weird, isn’t limited to strictly the Liberty store. It continues to surface everywhere, and none more prominently than his current home base, Palmyra. The shuffli...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - D13

6 Oct 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

A potential empire in ruins   Catching even the top brass off guard, this bombshell about the closure sends Duane, Rob, and Mr. Locke immediately scrambling for a replacement store. Though they make a weak attempt at arguing with the strip mal...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - C13

5 Oct 2023 12 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

paper notes are still surprisingly useful in this day and age — assuming you can make sense of them   The twelfth and final column in the new items spreadsheet concerns case quantity. This has never truly mattered before, but is a nice conveni...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B13

4 Oct 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Tentacled creature that also meows — and a decent facsimile of certain persons in the building   Everyone expects that the Liberty Avenue store will be the next to close. It’s staggered along on life support for years, so much so that for the...

NaNoWriMo Preptober Outlining - Part 1

4 Oct 2023 3 minute read 0 comments NKvM

Well, Preptober is on us, and for those interested in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is time to start gathering ideas and making plans. If you haven't signed up, yet, you might want to head over to their site, and make things official....

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - A13

3 Oct 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey

Partial view of the growler and singles beer section at Palmyra   This move back to the store is like everything happening in reverse. It’s possible Edgar even gives Duane the exact same response, verbatim, in shrugging and saying, “wherever you...