Ben East Books

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  • Bot Battle

    Your schizophrenic mind imagines the bot and all its bot friends at the BigBotCorporation scraping your user data and related accounts to better understand what position you’re in to pay exorbitant fees and thereby charge you the maximum without scaring you off. Read more

  • So Much More than a Sandwich

    Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee Diane Fanning shared her gathered wisdom from publishing 27 books. My favorite: Writing is not a competition. All writers walk in each other’s shoes and know the courage and resilience required to complete the ACT OF WRITING A BOOK. Read more

  • Blocked Caller

    You have a long history of resentment and loathing toward the telephone. Phone calls with the home warranty company, Chince, merely made you hate them all the more. Read more

  • The Leak Business

    Having not done this before, I’m hesitant to pull to hard. I don’t want to break something. We just had a new shower installed in this bathroom and wouldn’t it destroy me to have to redo the vanity? Ever been to a tile store? Some things in life we need less choice, not more. Read more

  • Numb

    Down at the USA Jeans Factory today we produced a memo asking for reinstatement to the work we’re professionally trained to do while slogging over the work of individuals fired from doing the jobs they knew so well. I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown, The dream is gone. Read more

  • Have It Your Way

    “A pedestrian is a much smaller threat than a vehicle. What if I was driving a cyber truck? I’d be crazy, right? A madman.” Read more