Help Wanted: A Workplace Conflict Short Story

J. R. Nichols‏

Articulate Expression

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The donuts need making, the cookies need frosting, and Boss Lady just fired the only other worker.

What is a baker to do?

In this case - pick up the pace; sweep and mix and frost to the backbeat of a tune that’s been hatching in your worried mind for some time, now.

Until...

... through the door comes a potential replacement, with T.R.O.U.B.L.E written all over his “just-Boss-Lady’s-type” face.

Can anyone save the bakery from Boss Lady’s increasingly poor decisions? More importantly, can anyone save Boss Lady from herself?

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J. R. (Jamie) Nichols submits two pieces of fiction per week to The Writing Shorts Newsletter. Her shorts (pieces of short fiction) have won several online awards and have been published in two anthologies. Her first novel is anticipated for release in the fall of 2021.

Jamie is most widely known for her livestreamed writing sprints. In fifteen minutes or less, she creates a piece of short fiction based on the weekly prompt (provided by The Christian Indie Writers’ Podcast). You can read the finished result, unedited, at writingshorts.net.

Born and raised in Metro Detroit, J.R. Nichols now resides in sunny central Florida. When she is not writing or editing, she and her happy hubby are scrambling to keep up with the lives of their three amazing teenagers