Last year, sometime around summer, I managed to break my Samsung Galaxy S10+ while on paramedic duty. I bent down on the driver's seat because I'd dropped something, forgetting that I had my phone in my chest pocket. Well, besides my phone, I've also kept a pair of scissors inside...

She was unsure whether this would end well. But she had to look.

The computer ran Windows. Elena had only used Apple since college. She found it charming how a subset of boomers only used  windows . Tolerated it's terrible user experience. Using the computer took her back to freshman year....

Ear buds didn't always need to be uncomfortable. Not if you spent 150 dollars on them. Then they'd slide right in. Rubber heads shaping to her ear. Tulsa didn't go anywhere without them anymore. A gift from her high school best friend who had surprised her with a visit before...

Wednesday morning, quiet at the office . The junior employees had yet to arrive. Usually they'd have one of their playlists blaring through the Sonos by now. There would be chatter here and there. The occasional outburst of emotion used in response to something another person said. Contemporary small talk.

This...

The young man in the hoodie pounded his laptop . He still had an older model Macbook Pro , the ones with the graceful yet sturdy keyboards. One could get a lot usage out of those keys, and the guy in the hoodie had.

In college he had imagined himself becoming...

Tomorrow will be the last day at the company I work for currently. I will show up on Monday to collect my personal stuff as I will be on paid vacation for the last three days of August.

On the 31st of August, I will be driving to the new employer...

Yesterday I visited my new employer ( Employer Change Yours Truly ) I asked Christoph if he would come along, so I didn't have to drive the 305 kilometres (per direction) alone. He agreed and so we started at lunchtime.

The drive took...

Darjee sold his right kidney so that he his family could eat for two months. They were starving and this was the only way. His parents were too old and sick to sell their kidneys , and he would never allow his wife to do such a thing. His daughter,...

Three minutes without oxygen and you're dead. Fly too close to that time and your brain's toast.

Three days without water and you're done. I always wondered why  Walter White and  Jesse Pinkman didn't just dehydrate their first murder to death?

Most people can go about 2 months without food.

After that everything...

The next morning I went to the cafe just like I did every Wednesday around 9AM. The music was cafe-smooth Norah Jones . I ordered a black cup of house roast coffee , just like I always did when Norah was playing. Something about her made me enjoy that dark...

He crossed Lexington Ave to enter the design district with just a slight layer of sweat. Although he ran the second largest design + strategy agency in the city, he had chosen to work out of an office on the other side of Lexington, which technically put them within the...

After arriving I double checked the time and location. No error. I was at the right place at the right time. But where was John? The front door was left open, which might've been his way of passively greeting me in, but having never been inside I chose to wait...

OpenerBesides a mug of earl gray rooibos , there were few different things on her tabletop. An Organic Chemistry textbook and a stack of marked index cards. If a friend could peer through her second story window they would guess that she had staged the scene for a Facebook photo...