I just got this new job, which is kind of cool, but it kind of sucks. My old one was perfect, at least for me. I had a pretty big cubicle, didn’t have to attend a lot of useless meetings and was given a lot of freedom how to get my job done. […]
Drug Test
I got a friend who’s always trying to game the system somehow. When we were roommates in college, he was the kind of guy who only showed up to class during midterm exams. He was pretty smart, but also pretty lazy. Recently, he told me he’d been laid off from his job, but […]
Desert Witches
I’ve been on a lot of blind dates in my life. Most were pretty lame. I didn’t like her, she didn’t like me. Some ended with some pretty easy sex, but then we never connected much after that. This, of course, was in the early days of the Internet. When it was […]
The Violin
She told me that I needed to improve my creative side. I’d been working for this engineering company for the last eight years. And we haven’t been doing so well. Losing a little bit of market share every year. So they brought in a new manager of the R and D department. Said […]
They See You
I’m an idiot. I got fed up with my neighbors, who would smoke pretty much every day, stink up the place. I kept complaining but all the landlord ever did was just politely ask them to not do that. To which they would always say, “Yeah, whatever, we’ll stop.” But they never stopped. […]
Bargain Basement – The Eternal Torture
I’ve always prided myself on my negotiation skills. Back when I was in college, I loved haggling at flea markets, I still do. The back and forth, the techniques we both use, it’s a blast. One of the most powerful techniques you can use is to simply repeat their offer, […]
Plasma Center Nightmare
I used to live above this really loud restaurant. Back when I was in college, and didn’t have a lot of money. The rent was really, cheap, and I was usually so drunk I didn’t really notice the noise. Sometimes my friends and I would sell our plasma to buy beer, or other […]
The Picture Perfect Promise of Murder
So my friends asked me to go camping. I don’t usually like camping. At least not lately. When I was much younger it was a lot more fun. Until that one incident that I don’t really like to talk about. So they convinced me to go. And there we are, sitting around the fire. A […]
Rat Breeding
What Drives Me I don’t always know what I write. Or why I write. Sometimes I wake up, having dreamt of an idea that simply won’t leave my mind. It’s as if it’s been placed there by somebody else, or something else. I try and shake it off, go for a walk before sunrise, but […]