Not too long ago, I saw a guy walk past my desk eating something on a stick.
It looked like it had little legs, that thing on a stick.
It jarred me.
I soon realized it was just a corn dog, but it gave me a great idea for a short story. Well, that and the troubling reality of acronym-inflation.
Add an interesting item from my son’s recently acquired book on Northern California insects, and I had some of the primary elements of my new short story, “Some Kind of Rugged Genius,” which now appears in 3:AM Magazine.
Of course, if roasted rat on a stick, California stink beetles and acronym insanity ain’t your thing, you may wanna pass on this one.
I don’t think I ever want to work in an office with you. Jeez, between this one and HQ Likes Your Style I feel fortunate to be a minimum wage monkey.
By: jedidiah ayres on April 21, 2009
at 4:34 am
Hey, Jed. .. I’d be a pleasure. Tons of acronyms and double entendres and way-fun offsites. .. Who wouldn’t want to apply for a job at a place like that?
By: Greg Bardsley on April 21, 2009
at 9:00 am
What I enjoy most about your stories, simple prose that twist the reader along, line by line, paragraph by paragraph til its too damn late, you’re hooked, wanting more. Damn fine work!!!
By: Frank Bill on April 23, 2009
at 12:24 pm
Good job on this one, buddy. It’s like Office Space meets Naked Lunch, but written by Terry Gilliam, and co-authored by Hunter S. Thompson. Just kidding, it’s not that over-the-top. Great read.
By: Jason Duke on April 24, 2009
at 8:38 pm