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The Current Issue
Issue 5: Tales from the Couch
Tales from the Couch contains the following stories and poems from the mental healthcare worker's point of view:

Empathy by Aleksandra Becnel
Healing by Bernard Brachya Cohen
Three Jail Nights by Myra Sherman
Protection by Laura Loomis
Consultation by Erika Dreifus
My Year As Superman's Dog by Matthew Petti
The Most Dangerous by Jackie Gamber
Godel Visits the University by Peter Cunniffe
Strands, The Shadow of the Healer, and Miss Managed Care by Elizabeth Burk
Repairing a Broken Doll by
Carol L. Bowman
Sexual Healing by Barbra Annino

128 pages
$8.00 US

Past Issues

Support the unsung worker. Purchase a copy or two of Workers Write! or a few Overtime chapbooks. Read them, give them as gifts, or leave them on the subway.

Issue 1: Tales from the Cubicle

"Workers Write! is written by and about the poor souls who slave away in the gray anonymity of cube land, but it is not without a sense of humor or hope."
--San Antonio Current

Tales from the Cubicle contains the following stories from cube land:

Meet Mr. Mandrake by Adam Connors
Inboxed by Matt McHugh
Cubed by B.A. Goodjohn
Conversion by Greg Paulos
Four Work-Related Letters by Geoff Herbach
A Tempting Office by David Lignell
Waterworks by Lowell Mick White
Cubicles from this Angle by Charles Conley
The New Guy Starts Wednesday by Tom Green
Dymaxion Inc. by James Grinwis
Down the Rabbit Hall by Dawn Preston

152 pages
$8.00 US
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Issue 2: Tales from the Classroom

Tales from the Classroom contains the following stories from the classroom:

What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali
Twenty-Five Pounds by Cristina Cabrera
Cupid Chaos by Helen Price Walters
Friday Afternoon by Kenneth Pobo
Resistance by Dale-Marie Bryan
No Partial Credit by Tom Green
All for an Extra Dollar by Stephen Paske
Unclogging Love, Part 2 by David LaBounty
From the Heart by Larry Wood

100 pages
$6.00 US
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Issue 3: Tales from the
Cash Register

Tales from the Cash Register contains the following stories from the land of retail:

Checkout Girl by Joan Mazza
Dinner Alone by Brian Brown
Accidents for Sale by Constance Lang-Lynard
My First Day by Diana Eid
Killer Shift by Michael Giorgio
The Checkout Girl, An Interview With Rose Gowen on the Business of Groceries by Rose Gowen
Punching the Keys by Carol Parris Krauss
Orange Prison by Sergio Hernandez
Making Spirits Bright by Robin Svedi
Shift Work by Sierra Bellows
Of Fresh Baked Bread and Frozen Pizza by Rebecca Wolfe
Waiting in Line by Tim Kissell

128 pages
$8.00 U.S.
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Issue 4: Tales from the Clinic

Tales from the Clinic contains the following stories and poems from examining rooms:

The Dark Marks by Cortney Davis
Third Shift by Amy Simonson
Drawing Blood by David Yost
Your Test Is Positive by Lisa Rutledge
Last of the Richardsons by Peggy Duffy
The Kiss by Bill Fullerton
You Lose a Few by Anna Sykora
A Voice in the Room by River Adams
Tests and Measurements by Dory Adams
There Are No Poems at Hospital Management Meetings by Cortney Davis
Melon by Lewis K. Schrager
Near-Death Experience by Bruce Hillman
The Call of the Rain Crow by
John Sparks
The Notebook by Carol Scott-Conner
The Thirteenth Floor by Davi Walders

184 pages
$8.00 US
Overtime Hour 8: Things Happen That Way
Jacqueline Faulkner took a job as a social worker just until her acting career took off. Years later, she's finding what most of her clients already knew: There's no escaping "the Welfare."
20 pages
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Overtime Hour 7: Shrimpers

For Daniel Moultrie Laurens, working on the sea is almost as dangerous as living on land.

30 pages
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Overtime Hour 6: The Three
Set in the Steelworks Bolt Factory, Marlene reflects on the death of her sister while her coworkers, Billy and Christian, wonder aloud at the purpose of their jobs.
16 pages
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Overtime Hour 5: On Edge
A medical technologist reflects on life and literature during a trying shift at a small hospital in eastern Kentucky.
26 pages
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Overtime Hour 4: A Pocket Guide to Male Prostitution
Surfing and sex would seem like the perfect summertime combination, but as this step-by-step guide shows, every job has its price.
(Warning: Adult Content)
18 pages
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Overtime Hour 3: Publisher
Todd Brackett is stuck at a subsidy publisher, "editing" authors who have bought their way into bookstores. Then the great American novel falls in his lap, and Todd has some decisions to make.
42 pages
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Overtime Hour 2: I Wish I Was
Hosey Hitchcock
Set in South Carolina in 1944, "Hosey" is the story of a boy working odd jobs on mill hill and the old loom fixer who takes him under his wing.
28 pages
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Overtime Hour 1: The Orchard
Craig is a young Scottish man picking fruit on an Australian farm, hoping to make enough money to continue his travels. His otherwise mundane job takes a turn for the worse when a new set of travelers arrive at the orchard.
28 pages
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