Houdini’s Cousin in the Storage Unit
…won Flash Fiction Friday at The Portland Review.
Birth of the Leftover Chef
One afternoon before the close of the fiscal year I received a phone call. As a member of the union’s executive team, I guessed the phone call had something to do with layoffs, an item that had been on the agenda for the last several meetings. I was right about the layoff part. We were […]
The Office
A consultant from Palo Alto came in to study ergonomics, marked budget constraints at the top-right corner of a graph pad. Working in this manner he drank beef bouillon from a coffee mug, a stack of napkins to blot his mouth before and after meetings. On the last day of his contract he recommended the […]