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A nervous young job-seeker\\u2019s interview is constantly interrupted by what seem to be personal phone calls to the interviewer, but from different callers.

Genre: Fairy Tale

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Excerpt:
I was nervous. Okay\\u2026yes, obviously. Obviously I was nervous. This one, I really, really wanted. Based on the description. Field investigation and research. Constant travel, mostly domestic, but some international travel might be required. Opportunities to advance, to earn further education, to earn money. But best of all, I would not be able to talk about the details of my work\\u2014with rare exception\\u2014with anyone outside of the organization. No details meant no criticism from my\\u2026beloved family. But you can\\u2019t always be sure from just a description. I tried not to get too excited.

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What\\u2019s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story?
Write a transcript for a job interview where the interviewer keeps pausing to take personal phone calls.
Source: A Writer\\u2019s Year: 365 Creative Writing Prompts. Text by Emma Bastow. Copyright \\xa9 2019 HarperCollins Publishers

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Faster Fictioneer
I held my first free writing workshop over Zoom to teach my method of writing short stories (an abbreviated version) on 11/8/2023. The workshop is based on my course, called \\u201cFaster Fictioneer: A Doable Method to Write a Short Story from Start to Finish in Five Weeks.\\u201d

You can watch a replay of the workshop here: FASTER FICTIONEER

(You can also buy the course there.)

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CREDITS
Story: \\u201cA Most Discourteous Interview\\u201d Copyright \\xa9 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production:\\xa0 Nila L. Patel

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Music:
\\u201cTrip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background\\u201d by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by ANDREA BARONI (Cyberleaf)*
\\u201cFugue For One Synthetic Heart\\u201d
\\u201cNight Time\\u201d
\\u201cSlightly Across\\u201d
\\u201cThe Tech Show\\u201d
\\u201cFast Lanes Light Rain\\u201d
\\u201cMarch of the Waking Lights\\u201d
\\u201cEvolving Cities\\u201d
\\u201cThe Tech Show Short3(loop)(126)\\u201d
\\u201cFugue For One Synthetic Heart (No Percussion)\\u201d

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*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

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Music by Andrea Baroni licensed from GameDev Market
Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket
Vocal effects created with Audacity

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Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.net
Find more music by Andrea Baroni at gamedevmarket.net
Find more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Central image with a top and bottom border to make the format square. Center left, a woman seen from waist up, facing forward, with forearms resting on a table surface, right hand over left. Brows raised, she looks over at a device, partially visible lying on the surface at right.\\xa0 Motion lines appear around the device. Faint shadows appear on the wall behind the person: a solid circle inside an open circle, tendrils, and the top half of a humanoid figure. Watermark of the \\u201cStoryfeather\\u201d along surface at left.