Onomatopoeia Poem
By Marisol Hernández
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‘Everything was okay until Marisol accidentally broke a china cup with a rose on it that her stepmother had brought with her from DR.’
Onomatopoeia Poem
By Marisol Hernández
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‘I think there should be a National Service of Hospitality. The best way to see the true face of humanity is to serve it a plate of chips.’
Camilla Grudova on bad-mannered customers.
‘Anyone who has ever worked night shifts will understand the vertiginous feeling that comes with staring down the day from the wrong end.’
A.K. Blakemore on working nights.
‘I was constantly reading job ads, trying to find my holy grail – a job I could stand to do, and someone foolish enough to hire me.’
Sandra Newman on learning how to play professional blackjack.
‘I loved being a receptionist. What I loved about it was playing the part of being a receptionist.’
Emily Berry on being a temporary office worker.
‘Every part of you would swell, including your eyeballs, and no matter how much water you drank, you were always dehydrated.’
Junot Díaz on working for a steel mill.
Nell Freudenberger is the author of a novel, The Dissident, and Lucky Girls, a collection of stories both published by Picador in the UK and the Ecco Press in the US. She was one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists in 2007. She lives in New York.
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‘When I was seven, I sat down to draw God. God wore a pirate shirt, purple harem pants and a red fez.’
‘He hated the idea of learning words from a list; it was like taking vitamin supplements in place of eating.’
‘As a kid, he played video games and roughhoused on the beach and joined a gang.’
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