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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
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
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
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
$2.50 US
Overtime Hour 7: Shrimpers
For Daniel Moultrie Laurens, working on the sea
is almost as dangerous as living on land.
30 pages
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
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
$2.50 US
Join the club. We've got shirts.
We had some t-shirts made for the Texas Book Festival.
These 100% white cotton Hanes Authentic Ts were a hot item, but
we still have a few left over.
Adult Small: $12.00
Adult Medium: $12.00
Adult Large: $12.00
Adult XLarge: $12.00
We ran out of odd
sizes (2XL and kid), but if we receive enough requests, we'll have
some more printed. Send us an e-mail,
if you would like a size you don't see here.