James Corporon

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2020

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“You Can't Break Us All” by James Corporon

Submitted to Contest #45

When one falls, another two step up. That was the driving motto behind The Strong General Union, founded hours ago, and already flourishing even in the most horrible of conditions. Terrence Graywater didn’t exactly find it surprising that so many had joined their cause so quickly, after all: who wanted to work in a glass factory for twelve hours a day, for minimum wage? It happened all at once. He’d been the first, along with five of his friends. They got signs, wrote on them, made their demands, and protested right outside the factory’s...

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“Lose Some, Win Some” by James Corporon

Submitted to Contest #44

My life was never the same after I lost my arm in a construction accident. OSHA will get you on the most minor crap, but for some reason, the more I think about it, my last workplace hardly ever had an inspection. A paid-off inspector, a delayed inspection, paperwork falling through the cracks: whatever it was, they were immune, in the short-term, to getting called out for their lack of safety procedures. I was installing some pipe and I had my arm severed by a tractor while I was working. It was the most pain I’d ever felt in my life. It wa...

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