A little bit of everything
The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these short-short stories. They’re mildly addictive but in a good way, involve no depressing or scary news and no meaningless chitchat with co-workers or your supervisor – and they might just change the way you think and the work you do for the better.
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t’s a short-short story about Jeremy and Ruth working their way around the toxic management that’s been holding them back.
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This fourteenth installment is called “Guardian.” It’s a short-short story about a father who gave his daughter something that he promised would protect her when he was out of town. If you like what you read and would like to see previously published short-short stories, just click on the link above the headline, “Except for a few details…”
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Like the title of this column says, “Except for a few details,” they’re all true stories. Well, sort of. In any case, there will be new ones every week. Read a few and watch what happens. And then get back to work. The more you read, the longer the effect will last.
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This twelfth installment is called “Double Fake.” It’s a short-short story about a girl who likes a guy enough to set him up to meet her in their laundry room – and a friend of hers who talks her into doing it in her underwear. Because if that doesn’t do it, nothing will. If you like what you read and would like to see previously published short-short stories, just click on the tag link, “Except for a few details…”
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The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these short-short stories. They’re mildly addictive but in a good way, involve no depressing or scary news and no meaningless chit-chat with co-workers or your supervisor – and they might just change the way you think and the work you do for the better.
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Hey. The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these short-short
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Do you know what you need? You need a break. Not a two-week vacation. Just a little one here and there, in the middle of the day or night if you’re having trouble sleeping. One that doesn’t involve indulging yourself with empty calories or mindless television. Or that’s too expensive and more trouble than it’s worth.
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Over the past two years, I had made some desultory attempts nearby but without success: the Baltimore Bayview yard and Hyattsville, MD. The latter was a particular waste of time because CSX upgraded the tracks long ago, making the trains too fast to jump, but I lazily hoped against hope to find a train stopped for clearance or the like. The last failed attempt was in late November, when in a bit of Murphy’s law, I found 2 repairmen adjusting a crossing signal. At a time like that, there would be no trains, period.
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The next time you feel the need to throw cold water on your brain, read one of these. They’re short, mildly addictive but in a good way, involve no depressing or scary news and no meaningless chitchat with co-workers or your supervisor – and they might just change the way you think and the work you do for the better.
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