Abraham Kim @abrahamKim

Hipsters talk more than Boomers these days.

Abraham Kim last shared their writing change jar
It was strange keeping change from a customer.  Bloomingfoods wasn't a restaurant. there was no tipping. At first Drew thought about putting the extra cash into the register. Instead he pocketed it. Figured it would just be wasted if he put it into the register anyway. Although the store always...
Abraham's Pantry
🧇 53 Waffles
🍫 56 Chocolate Bars
🍪 43 Cookies
🥃 40 Whiskeys
🍊 35 Tangerines
☕️ 61 Coffees
🍺 54 Beers
🥟 50 Dumplings
🍍 55 Pineapples
🍵 46 Teas
🍣 53 Sushis
🥓 44 Bacons
🥚 42 Eggs
🥩 37 Steaks
🍓 47 Strawberries
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Flash Fiction Practice
Time to Beer

There's something about a 30-rack of Busch Light .

You buy from the right place and an Andrew Jackson will cover it with change to spare. If you get real lucky that change will include a quarter or two that you can save for laundry day -- if you live...
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2021-07-31 16:32:07

Flash Fiction Practice
The People's Hero

Nobody cares about the trails you've gone through if you ever end up in a good spot. During your ascension you'll be loved for a little bit. Some get lucky and it lasts years. But the slide from being a hero to villain is abrupt. So if you ever find...
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2021-07-30 12:22:26

Jeannie Hammond
Freshmen

My classmates were almost exclusively upperclassmen. I spent fall semester of senior year in AP classes devoid of freshmen. Art surprised me by how evenly distributed the classmates were. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors were the most common but there were also a decent number of freshmen in there painting and...
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2021-07-29 16:10:19

I found the Diaries of Greco
Buk

I spent the first few weeks of that job reading  Bukowski . Besides for Post Office, I read all of his books. His stories fit in with this job, because I felt like I was having one over on 'the man', and this was exactly what Buk valued. Living on...
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2021-07-28 13:17:10

Flash Fiction Practice
The Plumber's Wife -- part 1

Jane was the oldest tenant in the 11 unit building that sat in the middle of the city's prominent historic district. Although she rented a one bedroom apartment, she felt a connection to her neighbors. Not the ones inside the other units of her building, who were mostly college kids,...
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2021-07-27 13:29:41

Flash Fiction Practice
"Love you two." -- Trevor

He had signed off on the note. "Love you two. --Trevor"

Trevor's mom had been dead for years. And he had a shit relationship with his dad. So 'the two' in the note couldn't be his parents. It had to be two of us. But there was three of us, so...
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2021-07-26 12:49:30

Jeannie Hammond
"I walked straight to art"

Once I got accepted into NYU , I no longer cared about which classes I took. Or actually I did care, but in a different way. Now that I was accepted, I no longer needed to take specific classes to impress universities. I could take whatever I wanted for my...
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2021-07-25 19:11:48

I found the Diaries of Greco
Free Eight Hours

We got comfortable with the fact that we were being paid to do whatever we wanted -- so long as it took place at our workdesk  -- eight hours a day. Still... we never got so fat and entitled to the point where we began expecting it to last forever....
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2021-07-24 20:31:39

I found the Diaries of Greco
Before, I had assumed we'd be on the phone all day

We had three supervisors at the phone bank. Each bringing at least a year's experience. Apparently that was enough time to encounter ~97% of financial aid scenarios, which was enough to be our supervisors. Their jobs officially was to assist us: whenever we found ourselves stumped, we could go on...
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2021-07-22 13:53:45