FICTION
Salary Man
Naomi Uemura’s body was never recovered. He radioed down from the Denali summit on February 13, 1984, and then the mountain kept him. What follows is one of the days that might have been.
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Dedicated Service
A few weeks after he was fired, a package arrived in the mail. It was his one-year anniversary gift. The card inside thanked him for his "Dedicated Service." It was signed by the head of HR. She had been dead for three months. Dedicated Service is a short story about layoffs, marriage, a traveling salesman, a Cartier Pasha, and the strange comfort we sometimes find in unexpected places. 7-minute read.
FICTION
Harold Isaacs Lives
Harold Isaacs was the lone survivor of a small plane crash in the lowland jungle southeast of Cusco, Peru when he was just a boy of thirteen. The two other passengers were his uncle Jack, who died on impact, and the pilot, who lived two more days pinned in the twisted metal of the cockpit.
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