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Jake McBride

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2025

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Under-qualified

Should I tell them I’m not actually a trained pilot? My friend Dave applies for all kinds of jobs. He’s cool like that. He gets interviews, too. He’s currently working as a financial advisor in The Big Smoke, with absolutely no previous experience in financial advising. He couldn’t advise two cents. Dave has certainly cracked the employment nut, though. The method: straight-up lie on your CV. And if you get an interview? Pretend you’re going for an acting job, and act well. Magnum Opus that thing. Bafta, Oscar, Cannes Film Fest. I don’t know...

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The Hearing People

Submitted to Contest #292

We once observed colour with our eyes. Greens and blues, palettes and hues; the great ancestors of monochrome, existing only in folklore. We were once seeing people. The breadth of our vision once extended beyond shadows and distance. The sticks we once threw for hounds contained colour, as did the pounded grass under the pursuing paws. As did the paws, themselves. The stimuli, now desaturated. The irons, the steels; our livelihood, our resource. The hammer, how it fell. How it falls even now. Shards of our history are traded in whispers. ...

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