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Humiliation of a Samurai

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THAT WAS THE SUMMER WE DID OUR LAUNDRY IN THE TUB. Kyle handed over my final check when I was terminated but I wouldn’t get my tips until I laundered and returned my uniform. …

Alcoholism

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one VINCENT part 1
one VINCENT part 1
Alcoholism

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Humiliation of a Samurai

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one VINCENT part 2

< part one Kyle was a glow-stick raver with stainless spikes in his ears until he got hold of a bad dose of sunshine and shit himself at Coachella, found Jesus Christ while sucking on ice cubes and staring at the ceiling of a darkened recovery tent. Now he was…

Literary Fiction

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one VINCENT part 2
one VINCENT part 2
Literary Fiction

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Humiliation of a Samurai

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one VINCENT part 3

< part two My final coaching conversation was a speakerphone three-way with Sharon at HR. Kyle rubbed a flaky hole in his earlobe and nodded while Sharon charted my course according to PapaTaco’s flat-Earth map of corporate expectations. My current heading had long ago sailed beyond the point of here…

Literary Fiction

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one VINCENT part 3
one VINCENT part 3
Literary Fiction

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Humiliation of a Samurai

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two MARGARET part 1

< back to chapter one THAT WAS THE DAY I LEFT THE APARTMENT FOR GOOD. The moment it became clear I’d put faith and trust in someone who obstructed my development? Prevented me from connecting crucial dots? …

Literary Fiction

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two MARGARET part 1
two MARGARET part 1
Literary Fiction

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Humiliation of a Samurai

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two MARGARET part 2

< part one All I needed that day was a shred of peace. Enough silence and sacred space to recover from another eight-hour-long punch in the face disguised as employment. I took my breaks at my desk and did crossword puzzles. Spent sixty silent minutes hunched over my phone in…

Literary Fiction

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two MARGARET part 2
two MARGARET part 2
Literary Fiction

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Monkey Rocket Inc.

·Aug 31

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Monkey Rocket 003
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Humiliation of a Samurai

·Aug 12

ten VINCENT part 6

< back to part five Pris picked up the first round. I stared into the fizzing abyss of a double Jack and Coke and figured fuck it. Thirteen days was a decent streak. I could find another piece of string in London. I just needed a day or two to…

Alcoholism

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ten VINCENT part 6
ten VINCENT part 6
Alcoholism

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Humiliation of a Samurai

·Aug 1

ten VINCENT part 5

< back to part four A camera crew tracked me and Pris from the elimination ceremony to a waiting minibus. Scalding indignity rose from my bones and baked the space between my skin and my clothes, making both layers unbearable. Pris shed her banishment tracksuit and changed into her “cozies”…

Alcoholism

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ten VINCENT part 5
ten VINCENT part 5
Alcoholism

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Humiliation of a Samurai

·Jul 26

ten VINCENT part 4

< back to part three Pris and I got ratted out by Sally Fein, a disability-rights advocate who came to the carnival with a goddamn GoPro buckled to her son’s wheelchair. The device captured Pris’ intellectualist slur and my snorting approval with uncanny fidelity. Rather than throw us to the…

Alcoholism

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ten VINCENT part 4
ten VINCENT part 4
Alcoholism

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Monkey Rocket Inc.

·Jul 1

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J.R. Schaefers

J.R. Schaefers

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Purveyor of fine fiction. www.medium.com/humiliation-of-a-samurai www.instagram.com/citizensamurai/

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