Published: Oct 15, 2020
"Working too much is going to kill you," was scrawled on the inside cover in foreign handwriting. Kean stared at the lettering, trying to remember who had left him that note. A ...
Published: Oct 14, 2020
She looked at him over the papers briefly and continued reading. He sat stiffly in the plastic chair at her desk. "I do not understand it," she said finally. "What?" he said. ...
Published: Oct 13, 2020
"You try too hard," she said. "Is that a thing?" Eric asked. "You're 120% and everyone else is seventy or maybe eighty percent on a good day." He sat there, eyes on ...
Published: Oct 12, 2020
The car sputtered on the road, calling out to be sold for scrap. Eric loved his car: a 1992 Toyota Corolla, dark tan inside and out. It was the first and only ...
Published: Oct 09, 2020
Snippets hung around in his mind. He wasn't practicing everyday like he should; instead struggling to keep the pace. Flurries of production kept him just ahead of the scheduled demands. In a ...
Published: Oct 08, 2020
He screamed today. At the top of his lungs. I mean it; he screamed today. One of those fits that you cannot predict or stop once it's begun. You've got to let ...
Published: Oct 07, 2020
"What happens if we move that?" Yerl asked. Dominic stared at Yerl, jaw slightly askew. "I mean the profile." "Yeah." Dominic sucked on his teeth, thinking. He scratched his beard and rubbed ...
Published: Oct 06, 2020
"You can obviously fix all the things during your cool down week." "Week?" "Yeah, cool down week." "We were told two weeks," Yerl said over Zoom. "It's a week now," Nicole said, ...
Published: Oct 05, 2020
Melony snapped the photo. "There," she said holding up her phone for Cara to see. "I don't like it." "Again?" Melony looked at it again and grimaced. "I think it's fine. I ...
Published: Oct 02, 2020
The train thundered overhead, carrying people home from long days at work. A spark blazed briefly like an arc of lightning casting shadows at odd angles. Cara covered her ears until the volume ...