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2 Oct 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Hurry up and wait…for your brain to fry The little blurb people put beside their name in Twitter is usually far more comical than anything they ever post. This is one thing Jack Lincoln has noticed, scrolling through that social media time s...
1 Oct 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Someone clearly skipped their morning coffee before faxing this A month or so into her term, after Pierre has long since decamped for Liberty, Melissa emails Edgar out of the blue, to ask if she can possibly spend some time training with him....
30 Sep 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Brand #1 of 4 in the patchwork puzzle of scale databases In the wake of this Pierre fiasco, Corey is attempting to redirect his story. Now he’s stating it wasn’t that he ever thought Edgar was a slacker or a joke or anything like that, but r...
29 Sep 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
A magical program, but not THAT magical. Their de facto leader who becomes the actual leader, with the latest devastating news. Upon reflection, so much more is making sense now. One morning everyone arrives to Karen Hatley’s mass email in t...
25 Sep 2023 13 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
approximate view of computer screen with no glasses or contacts “Well,” Corey sniffles, with a dismissive upward head tilt, “you’re probably our best option at this point.” The thing about a dismissive attitude, though, is that it doesn’t ac...
21 Sep 2023 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Small, crowded aisles glimpsed via arial view “I don’t know what’s got into Corey,” Johnny grouses to Edgar, a rare cloudy sentiment coming from him. “I think that new promotion’s gone straight to his head!” Edgar doesn’t agree or anything,...
15 Sep 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Love your local help, too! Like from the closed down market across town. They have begun to refer to it as The Curse of the Employee Newsletter. Even as when Valerie took over this job from Barbara, they switched from black and white to full c...
15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
In 2014, I got the wild and crazy idea to ask other writers to send me stories set in the biblical Garden of Eden, but with one stipulation. They couldn't use biblical characters. No Adam and Eve, and no talking serpents. "Be original," I said. "Be u...
14 Sep 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Krisz Rokk
Kyro walked across the military base contemplating on the conversation he had earlier this morning with a fellow Lyrian: “How beautiful it is to live an ambivalent life where duality is just a concept for a predominantly zero civilization struggling...
12 Sep 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Healthy Shopper Market meat case Following that whole Inside Scoop phone call from Scott Wickander, and the controversy over removing dates from products — a charge Corey denied, incidentally — the bosses learned that this wasn’t even necess...
