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The Impossibility of Buying Light Bulbs
It used to be a very simple task to purchase a light bulb. Check the wattage on the dead bulb at home, go to the store and pick a similar one from the display shelf, take it home, remove the burned-out bulb from its socket, replace it with the new one, wrap the old bulb in some newspaper, and toss it in the trash.
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Featured Stories
Sour Mash
- by Dominic Bucca
- 5 minute read
How to Sell Wine
- by Stacey Orth
- 7 minute read
Domestic Bliss
- by Leanne Jenkins
- 3 minute read
From Telemarketer to Manual Labourer
- by Matt Micheli
- 9 minute read
Beaver Eating at Burning Man
- by Leah Mueller
- 11 minute read
My Visit to the Scientology Centre
- by Douglas Quill
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Retail Tales with Brian Brehmer: #13 The Customers
- by Brian Brehmer
- 4 minute read
Not In The Pink
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The Last of the Porn Peddlers
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Don’t Ever Become a Nurse
- by Imogen Gang
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Beyond Work: Shopping Centre Santa Claus
- by Curtis James
- 3 minute read
Barcelona Burns. A week in protests.
- by Giusi Palomba
- 7 minute read
Nursing: It’s not a vocation if you hate it
- by Caitriona Murphy
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Beyond Work: The Refuse Collector
- by Curtis James
- 7 minute read
Teacher
- by Laurence Rivers
- 6 minute read
Words of Wisdom: Career
- by Yahia Lababidi
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So You’re Socially Awkward Too?
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- 5 minute read
Overeaters Anonymous
- by Steve Slavin
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Driving Corpses for Money
- by Brandon Christopher
- 9 minute read
The Best Easter of My Life
- by Holly Watson
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How to be a Decent Cashier
- by Briana Silva
- 4 minute read
The Hazards of Online Dating
- by Maxine Winch
- 4 minute read
The Rise of Health Food Porn
- by Jake Taylor
- 3 minute read
I Hate Bedbugs
- by Stacey Orth
- 9 minute read
Noir the Savior
- by Matt Mattila
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The Summer I Dated a Drag Queen
- by Chase Burns
- 9 minute read
Running of the Bulls
- by Laurence Rivers
- 4 minute read
I Survived 27 Surgeries
- by Amy Oestreicher
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Confessions of a Bad Waitress
- by Stacey Orth
- 6 minute read
Things I Haven’t Said
- by Michael Herrington
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