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"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - K5

29 Aug 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.07

Healthy Shopper Market bulk bins   Though Craig Willis was able to successfully deflect Pierre’s attempts at forcing him to work weekends, he is nonetheless cajoled into driving up to Palmyra and helping their grocery department, for one full da...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - H5

25 Aug 2023 10 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03

site of the latest price related intrigue   Some conspiracy theory type cashier, a thirtysomething dude that’s been with the company for maybe three weeks, sticks a post-it note to the monitor up in Palmyra’s office which reads, Friends: be care...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - G5

24 Aug 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03

  It’s strange how certain topics get lofted into the air, and begin to catch fire due to their momentum, when you’ve mentioned your own recent preoccupation with them to no one. Of course, skeptics will claim that it’s only because you are cu...

Once I Look Up, All Comes Falling Down (The Problem with Being Me)

23 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.07

"The same old story, told again. The same beginning and the same end. We talk in circles; let us out!" — The Black Hotels; No Sign of Science; Honey Badger Urgh. I really, desperately need to find and hold down a job, because I am beyond sick and t...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - F5

23 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.01

Healthy Shopper Market’s quasi-mountain outpost   Walnut is a city of approximately 40,000, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The interstate neatly cleaves it into two distinct sections, one of which is modern and heavy wit...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - E5

22 Aug 2023 6 minute read 2 comments jasonmcgathey $0.06

As much wine as would fit in the frame   Out here in the wild and woolly retail landscape, it’s often unclear whether keeping these incidents to oneself is the right thing to do. You could certainly advance a valid argument that sweeping somethi...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - D5

21 Aug 2023 7 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.03

Sections 2–18 of the Southside beer empire   The last week of the year, Southside and Palmyra both finally hit their magical $100K mark for the first time. Duane is on the floor at both locations, handing out $100 bills as promised to every em...

Dealing With Burnout

15 Aug 2023 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.06

I'm tired. I'm really, really tired. I've been working non-stop the last three weeks with two big writing project back to back. 123 tasks later, I'm genuinely fried. The last three days have been the worst, with a collective amount of 10 hours of sle...

"Tales of a Scorched Coffee Pot" - B5

14 Aug 2023 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey $0.04

mayhem for sale by the ounce   Getting a handle on this bulk madness is presumably one of the reasons Duane asked Harry to come up with a list of what each store is carrying. The results were evidently not quite what Duane had in mind, though, f...

Dealing With the Wal-Mart Effect in Freelancing

14 Aug 2023 3 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.28

Anyone has dipped their toe in freelancing knows what the term "feast and famine," means. The business of freelancing, particularly in the writing arena is very much a cyclical rollercoaster of ups and downs. One day you have more work than you know...