Devon Halliday | Writing

Work Experience

In the intern cave we are hungry. It is Wednesday and we were promised pizza for lunch, but no one knows when it will arrive, or who will be called to retrieve it.

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The Baker's Wife

She did something else before this—she might even have done it well. Refugee resettlement advocate, dental hygienist, accountant, small claims court lawyer, social media manager, physical therapist, insurance agent, pharmacist, dance teacher.

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Nothing that Counts

Claire is at the refreshments table, skimming the picked-over strawberries and the ignored grapes and the square vat of what’s probably hummus with an expression of polite optimism. A minute later, she’s nowhere at all.

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RecomMEN

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King of Thieves

They both still played the game. In the evenings after work they would log on around the same time, Louisa with some takeout dinner propped between her keyboard and monitor, Greg seeming not to have eaten or slept since the last time they played.

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Habit

Every now and then—once every few weekends or so, but never more than twice a month—Nita sinks into nothingness. It’s a controlled sink, premeditated, and ends about six hours before Seth’s car pulls into the driveway and the garage grinds open and shut.

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The Show

Their show: their 7:30pm weeknight show, the one they sit down with takeout for, with heaping bowls of stir-fry or one-pot pasta or soup, with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the nights they truly can't be bothered.

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If This Reaches You

In the valley there are wild goats. They patrol the wandering fields, grazing the grass down to a fuzz, dandelion stems hanging from their comical mouths.

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