Short Story: HELP WANTED
I totally forgot that I had signed up for the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. XD
I used to do this challenge every year. There's a $50 entrance fee, and every story gets feedback from the judges. Last time I made it to the final round, which was cool. Then I stopped doing sometime around 2019? Now I'm back, because I apparently don't have enough on my plate.
All the contestants are divided into groups that are randomly assigned a genre, subject, and character. For the first round, contestants have one week to write a story no more than 2,500 words with their assignments. For round two, everyone's mixed into a fresh group, given a fresh assignment, and three days to write a story 2,000 words or fewer. Those in the final round are now whittled down to one group, and they're given 24 hours to write 1,500 words or fewer.
My assignment was "political satire / hyperactive / tycoon."
...you ever get a prompt that's both too easy and too difficult?
Anyway, I ended up writing "Help Wanted." I'm posting this after the deadline, and all submissions are anonymous to limit bias.
Comments (16)
This was beautiful. His dad made him work for that job by making him VP🤣. He wasn't just handed the keys after college. How dare she ruin his company. 😂I could not type that with a straight face. So many would rage quit but so many of us have ingrained ourselves into a job with a boss that when their son takes over it's just an adjustment to stay in with the same job little by little we lose who we are by that job until we hit our breaking point.
this is so good omg?
Man if that was me I would've walked out long ago. Excellent read!!! Loved it!!
This was so good. I was hooked from the beginning and would have gobbled up more, especially the bosses downfall. The level of excitement I felt for her and her last to-do list was off the charts!
I've had to imagine the rest of the story to help relieve the residual torment. Anyway it involves a lot of gratuitous violence towards the CEO
Lol. Great story and i can picture it al perfectly
It's been seven hours and I'm still seething about this. I'd say it's very well written since I'm still so upsetty spaghetti about it.
Oh man! I do not blame her! 🤣
Both excellent and so real!
Love it!
HA! Omg the reminder thing. The amount of times I've sent multiple reminders to my docs and they are still late or miss the meeting entirely....too many times. (I'm an AA for very busy obgyn surgeons!). Wonderfully done!! 😊🤍
Typo page 10. Should be "Theo's". Every employee across all of QuinTech’s twenty-three warehouses in the United States walked out within an hour of the meeting—not just Theor’s.
Other than a few missing words, this was entertaining! I had wondered how you were going to add the satire... prono... 😆. I was quite happy with the last: t To Do. Thanks for sharing!
I would have rage quit before noon. I've never loved my own work so much.
I love it.
I saw the E-Mail notification and thought you were asking for help on a short story XD