Take a Break_becoming untethered_The Free Throw_Training Day
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Take a Break
The day started like most of his days lately. Jeffrey Crwww.onedoor.ccavnick III opened his eyes a few moments before his alarm sounded. He sprang to his feet throwing aside his sheets and the symptoms of the katzenjammer brought on by the previous evening’s reckless pe into the depths of the brown drink. Jeff yawned and, noticing a foot protruding from the pile of bed linens, he yanked the woman in his bed until she was almost falling off. “Hey!” he shouted, startling the woman. “What?” she moaned, covering her eyes to shield them from the sunlight streaming through the window coverings...
becoming untethered
(note: contains sensitive language)The light in the dim kitchen seemed dusty and grainy. It hung like a film between the two women. It seemed almost tangible, as if they could run their hands through it like swishing through a puddle. Like it was sticking to the sides of their windpipes, their lungs, with every inhalation. The kitchen was hot, too. A midsummer, late-afternoon heat. As if someone had switched on an oven, and left the oven door cracked.Someone was yelling in the road below the window. Someone peddling something, probably. Sticky wheat buns, perhaps, filled full with egg custard,...
The Free Throw
The Free ThrowYou may have heard a coach say something like, “What the kid lacks in talent can be made up for with hard work and desire.” Don’t believe it. Timmy was small for his age, clumsy, slow on his feet, lacking in any semblance of hand-eye coordination, and saddled with vision only corrected to a functional level with Coke bottle thick lenses. Other than that, he had all the makings of a great basketball player.Timmy’s desire and work ethic were unmatched in the history of grade school sports, but he still stunk at everything. This may sound harsh, but I tried other descriptions of Ti...
Training Day
Kina waited patiently for her new trainee to come to the store. She had been a cashier there for the past six years and was finally put in charge of training the new cashiers. This was her first trainee and she could not wait. The training room was apart from the store. It was a room in the basement where they had a cash register set up and some clothing and other accessories that they could scan and go through the motions of what a cashier does. Kina would train them for three days before they get “thrown to the wolves” as Kina calls it. Some survive and some don’t. And since it was the seaso...