James Smith
Stories (4/0)
The Legendary City of Fulfillment
On Friday, January 14th, 2029, at 4:47pm, twenty boxes from the SweetArts4SweetHearts.globe Jewelry Company arrived at the AmGle Central Fulfillment Center forty minutes west of Bakersfield, CA near the I-5 freeway. These boxes contained all ten thousand of SA4SH.globe’s newest style of 14k gold-plated heart-shaped lockets. The shipment was placed on a paddock in a small corner of the enormous facility in preparation for SweetArts’ Annual Valentines Day Sale which was scheduled to commence Monday morning.
By James Smith3 years ago in Fiction
Appreciation
“All right, that's it for today, guys. Big test on Probability Monday. Hope you’ve all started studying!” Nearly everyone in my Algebra 2 class groaned. Then, one by one, the face-filled boxes began blinking out of existence. Some murmured goodbyes before vanishing, but most simply disappeared. At this point, (nearly a year into remote learning) a wordless blip was all I’d come to expect, and I didn’t take it personally. It had been a tough year for everyone.
By James Smith3 years ago in Families