Tag: story
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“That’s your recruiting pitch?”
Most recruiters try to convince you. Chris Atriya is trying to convince Jon to walk away. The strange part? Jon can’t stop listening. 📖 The Unbound Realm – Chapter 1
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A zany and profane ad for my upcoming paperbacks for the Unbound Realm, soon available directly for purchase from King’s Entertainment
“Look at this nerd!” A gym-bro, predictably named Tanner, shoves me while I’m walking toward the squat rack. His gym-bro, buddy, a roofie-slinging Ivy league douche-bro named Sterling, snatches up my phone and starts clicking through my playlist. “What the fuck—this guy listens to Kpop DEMON HUNTERS??? Let’s ostracize him with disproportionate fury, and power…
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I expected advice.
A sales pitch. A reason to sign up. Instead, he listened. Really listened. And after everything I told him… After all the questions… He looked me straight in the eye and said: “Then don’t.” I wasn’t expecting that.
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“Looking for what?”
It should have been a simple question. But the way he asked it made me stop. Like he wasn’t asking why I walked into a recruiting center. Like he was asking what I’d been searching for my entire life. For the first time that day, I didn’t have an answer.
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I expected a recruiter.
Instead, I met Chris Atriya. There was something different about him. Not his uniform. Not his rank. The way he carried himself. Like he already knew something I didn’t. And for the first time all day… I was paying attention.
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I came looking for answers.
Instead, I found someone watching me. Not a recruiter chasing a quota. Not someone trying to sell me a future. Just a stranger standing quietly in a hallway. And somehow… I couldn’t stop looking back.
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A zany and profane ad for my upcoming paperbacks for the Unbound Realm, soon available directly for purchase from King’s Entertainment
What the strong-pube is happening, all you neglectful shower-shavers who don’t scrub up them bushies and leave a straggler hanging out on the tip of the shaft, the next time your significant other starts giving you a beej they pick it out but instead of just flicking it away they start flossing their teeth, hitting…
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I hadn’t found it yet
I thought maybe purpose was waiting behind one of those doors. Army. Air Force. Navy. The promises were different, but they all felt strangely familiar. Like I was searching for something I couldn’t quite name. And whatever it was… I hadn’t found it yet.
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Sometimes I felt like an alien pretending to be human
Everyone else seemed to know where they belonged. I wasn’t so sure. Sometimes I felt like an alien pretending to be human. And every once in a while… someone would understand exactly what I meant.
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Everyone else seemed to know where they were going
Everyone else seemed to know where they were going. Graduate. Get a job. Build a life. But one question kept following me everywhere. What’s it all for?