ENJOY

A short story by BONNIE GARMUS

You’re at a party. You’ve talked to several people, they all work in tech, they all make five times what you do, the party is giving you a complex. Who needs this? You grab your coat and head for the door. “Enjoying yourself?” a man with gin and tonic breath asks as you slip the unopened bottle of wine you brought back into your bag. “Sure am!” He asks you what you do for a living (admin!); then, for fun (not this!). Here, there are only two answers: Bitcoin or NFTs. So you buck the trend. “Home repair,” you say. Because it’s true: you love fixing things. He looks back, dubious. “You’re saying that you actually enjoy home repair?” “I do!” He picks up a cracker, smears it with beige cheese. “What sort of things do…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2022

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