Tag: stories
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Exit Interview
“Wait. Are you saying you will hold my last check until you conduct an exit interview? You cannot be serious, Travis. That can’t be legal.” Shelly stood in the entryway to her boss’s office, arms crossed, waiting for an answer. Working for Travis for three years, she found out that a small, often overlooked clause…
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Lost and Found
“Put that back, Jen! You don’t know where it’s been. Or worse, who had it before you. I’ll bet there’s a reason someone threw it away.” Shelly wasn’t the kind of woman to mince words. If anything, her introverted self spoke volumes. Her friends knew her quiet demeanor meant if she had something to say,…
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Upsetting A Small Town
She didn’t like the attention. Nor did she like how the other girls looked at her, staring at her new eyebrow piercing. Amber Hubbard was the first girl at Fairchild High School in the small town of Macon to have it done. So many questions. And so much unwanted attention from all the girls, from…
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The Gatorade Snafu
“Picture this: Twelve little eight and nine-year-old boys chasing after a soccer ball on well-manicured green grass. The coach is a middle-aged dude, a little pooch of a gut from drinking a few Coors Lite’s every night after working on an assembly line for General Motors. He decided to start coaching soccer because he loved…
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