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Patris's avatar

Great fuck it all piece with vivid back stories. The spider was the cherry on top. Brilliant

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

Thanks. Jacked up on Irish Breakfast Tea and angry on a gray Michigan day. I think I have another ( much different) piece in me today. If I’m gonna starve writing on this platform I’m gonna go down thrusting good stories into the world.

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Patris's avatar

Just in that mood too today - keep going Im begging you

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

It’s a matter of finances. It has been since the advent of Notes. Then the devastating blow of Substack paying TikTokers to migrate with no regard for the people who adopted their platform in 2020 when it was fledgling.

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

I fucking love this, when I can afford to I'm upgrading.

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Jimmy Doom's avatar

I’m stoked you love it. It was coming out of me and I couldn’t stuff it back in.

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

I adore dark humor, good sir!

I gotta say, your ability to establish character/narrator authority with such an economy of words is one I'm envious of. I adore dark humor too. What I've read from you is great, I just work BOH in a kitchen which is why I haven't already subscribed

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Paul R's avatar

Now Allen will have enough money to buy some no-brand anti-fashion clothes to distract him from the monotonous tedium of working at Precision and having to wear a logo on his chest.

I wonder if Dirk knew Allen’s inner dialogue would he have tried so hard to help his friend? Perhaps we all have agency in some parts of our lives, but not all parts of our lives?

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Parker McCoy's avatar

Allen is very relatable. Haha. Should he hope for a job he doesn't want but can keep him paying his bills or can he find a scheme so he can buy time to do...nothing I suppose? This is a funny but very common, problem, I am sure. Great tale, Jimmy.

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Patty Mallett's avatar

Nice.

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