Workers Write! Overtime

Overtime, a series of one-story chapbooks, was created to showcase some of the stories we receive that are a little too long for our Workers Write! series, but are worthy of publication.

We are looking for stories between 5,000 - 10,000 words, where work is a central theme.

(We also will consider serializing novels about the workplace. Please query first.)

We publish 6 hours a year. Subscriptions are available for $15 and include a copy of Workers Write!.

Individual hours cost $2.50.

If you think you have a story that would make an excellent edition of Overtime, send us a query at overtime@workerswritejournal.com.

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Overtime 14:
Route 28

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Hour 14 of Overtime is Mickey Burriss's story "Route 28."

Excerpt:
"I began to panic. Could it be the glaring sun, the one-hundred-plus-degree heat, the breezeless air, and the fact that I was lost as hell? I'd never learn this route before they turned me loose in two days. I felt the three fifty in my pocket and thought about a hot dog and Pepsi but decided not.

We drove and drove. Pretty soon, I determined that either Coral Gables was the largest town in the United States or we were unknowingly working Tampa and Orlando.

I thought about writing the census people and request they send an undercover agent here to drive route twenty-eight. A day in an ice-cream truck, and I was already convinced that Coral Gables was our third largest state."

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