Mitch Russell

Mitch Russell is a writer living in the Pacific Northwest. He has stuff in Rejection Letters, Olney Magazine, Bullshit Lit, and Functionally Dead.

GRAND NATIONAL by Mitch Russell

For training, they make you sit in this grey room with a bunch of computers on a grey table. Your boss tells you she’s thrilled to have you on board but she doesn’t exactly sound thrilled. She sounds a little high strung, which is understandable, what with all the security checkpoints and facial recognition scanners and armed guards stomping up and down the corridors, back and forth, back and forth. You’d be stressed too!  “This is just a little orientation presentation,” Pam tells you. “This explains all the, um, great things we do here!”  A dome camera blinks in the…

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UBËR by Mitch Russell

People—and I mean even absolute strangers—they’ll just talk and talk and talk and they expect you to listen to their whole life story. Have you ever experienced this? Do you know what I mean?

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