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Weekly Contest #345
The second Monday in January was the most important day in my fledging career. I was just six months into my first post-college job, working at a public relations firm in New York City. On this second Monday, Cybill Shepherd would be introduced as the spokesperson for the Beef Council. After weeks of mind-numbing grunt work, I was given the heady task of meeting Cybill at her hotel and escorting her to the press conference. This was it, I felt in my bones, this was when my career pivoted away from just menial chores. I wanted everything to ...
Weekly Contest #344
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 AUGUST 2000 Lodging World Rocked by Death of Four in Plane Crash Black Box Data May Provide Clues Sun Valley, ID – The American Association of Hotels and Hoteliers (AAHH) announced today the sad news that four innkeeping titans are presumed dead in an unexpected plane crash. JoJo Bramer and Harriet Ford, founding mothers of AAHH, were two of the four passengers identified by local police. Two male passengers have yet to be identified. They are believed to be Niel Hardy and Steve Ort, co-authors of “Niel’s...
Weekly Contest #342
CW: Misogyny, very crude language Samantha Franklin was the last person you’d expect to find working on a trading desk. She was a tree-hugging libertarian, an English major, wildly math-averse, a devout feminist. She’d only taken the temp job at Bear Stearns because her rent was late and she had two kittens to feed. Each investment banking on Wall Street had an internal radio station that broadcast proprietary trading news and stock rating changes. As long as anyone could remember, there had been a woman named Debbie -- in the 1970s? early ...
Weekly Contest #341
CW: References to homophobic language and sexual content. May 7th, 1918 My Dearest Alice ~ I’m at a loss with what to do about Clarence. He’s been such a special, sensitive boy to me. I know mothers aren’t to have favorites, but I’ll just say it: Clarence will always be my favorite. He’s so happy when he’s at a piano and we promised we’d buy him one after he had a good six months of lessons under his belt. I had hoped this would give Clarence time away from that George. I know they’ve been two peas in a pod, but every now and then I worry. D...
Weekly Contest #299
Things often are better on paper than in reality… especially when you are dating. I was a hopeful young college grad starting my career in public relations in the 1980s. My boss wanted to set me up on a blind date with this guy that worked for her husband.I wouldn’t normally have thought this was a good idea, but this was in the shadow of the dastardly 1986 Newsweek cover story that claimed they had data to prove that if you were a college-educated career woman and weren’t married by age 30, you’d have a less than 10% chance of making it to...
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