"That's a funny saying."

The first thing Dave noticed about the kid beside him were khaki pants. The beige draped the long legs not too snug, not too loose. He wore a polo of mid bright green, its cotton almost thick as a thin sweatshirt. The fabric looked soft. The kid...

Sitting at the  Chipotle was Dave. The cook. He was nursing a bowl of chicken, beans, and rice. Coincidence that he was here.

"Hi, Dave."

"Oh. Max. Hi."

"You live around here?" Max asked slow. Raising his pitch so Dave didn't feel obligated to answer.

"Nah. Just the nearest Chipotle. Can you believe it?"

"I...

Max Lambert hated eating at the diner after his shift. After sizzling bacon, frying toast, and wiping sweat dripping off his forehead so it didn't get into the customers' hash, the last thing he wanted at 7PM was to spend another minute at the diner. Even if the meal was...

The company was late on its rent . There was nobody to resolve the issue so they assigned it to an  intern . However the intern didn't take care of the issue and so the startup was getting kicked out of the office. Not because the building they rented a...

He had a client. Who wanted a  decentralized version of  chess .com built.

Jack didn't think it could succeed. But he took the gig on anyway. It paid the bills. Not that he had much bills to pay. He wasn't a dad and he didn't have any parents he had to...

George got up. A glass of water was needed. The group of young college students had finished smoking a bowl 15 minutes ago. Smoking weed without fail gave George an insatiable thirst. First it was the dry mouth feeling. cotton mouth they called it. To combat cotton mouth he would...

His car was finally ready for pickup at the garage. But because he was no longer splitting rent with his girlfriend and had started eating out every meal, he was flat out broke, unable to  Uber there. So he had to ask one of his friends.

He wished he could ask...