This short, humorous story by award-winning memoirist, Donald J. Bingle, deals with the stresses of life and work and how they interconnect, even when you don't want them to do so. Work mode is great for dealing with work, but not so great in other contexts. Approximately 1,130 words.
Also included is a bonus preview of Donald J. Bingle's novel, Forced Conversion. Everyone can have heaven, any heaven they want, but some people don't want to go. Read the action-packed start of this near future military scifi novel.
About the author: Author of the Dick Thornby Thrillers series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive), a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future, and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.
See Don's writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com., including a listing of about seventy anthologies in which he has stories. Some of his previously published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including: Tales of Gamers and Gaming;Tales of Humorous Horror; Tales Out of Time;Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales;of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-S;-Heroic Fantasy; and Shadow Realities. My award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project, and a variety of other short stories and memoirs.
Don also a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.
Also included is a bonus preview of Donald J. Bingle's novel, Forced Conversion. Everyone can have heaven, any heaven they want, but some people don't want to go. Read the action-packed start of this near future military scifi novel.
About the author: Author of the Dick Thornby Thrillers series (Net Impact, Wet Work, and Flash Drive), a series of spy thrillers which incorporate real-world conspiracy theories, GREENSWORD, a dark comedy about global warming, Forced Conversion, a military science fiction novel set in the near future, and Frame Shop, a mystery thriller set in a suburban writers' group, Co-author of The Love-Haight Case Files, Books 1 and 2, paranormal legal thrillers about lawyers protecting the rights of supernatural creatures in a magic-filled San Francisco. Edited the ghost anthology, Familiar Spirits. Also author of a variety of short fiction in the science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, mystery, steampunk, romance, and comedy genres, including stories in the Dragonlance and Transformers universes and in a variety of DAW themed anthologies.
World's top-ranked player of RPGA Classic roleplaying game tournaments from 1985-2000.
See Don's writing and gaming resumes at www.donaldjbingle.com., including a listing of about seventy anthologies in which he has stories. Some of his previously published stories have been collected by theme in his Writer on Demand TM series and published on Kindle, including: Tales of Gamers and Gaming;Tales of Humorous Horror; Tales Out of Time;Grim, Fair e-Tales, Tales;of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam, Not-S;-Heroic Fantasy; and Shadow Realities. My award-winning short memoir, Father's Day, is also available on Kindle, as is Gentlemanly Horrors of Mine Alone, the ninth story in Mike Stackpole's Chain Story Project, and a variety of other short stories and memoirs.
Don also a series of humorous critiques (Season's Critiquings; Merry Mark-Up, Holiday Workshopping, and Santa Clauses and Phrases) of Christmas classics which writers, aspiring authors, and NaNoWriMo participants will find especially amusing.
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