MIDLVLMAG (Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine)

An Open Heart

Originally Published in Specter issue 17, June, 2013.

After my manager asks, if the job isn’t done then why are you heading home?

I reconstruct the day: tell him how the electrical contractor completely fucked up a run of wire.

Vacation Policy

The Fault In Our KPIs

Peace was all I had known. My world was a simple 9-5, existing harmoniously in the realm of our cherished sovereign. A world abundant with cyberslacking and smoke breaks. That peace would not last.

Anxiety Sequence, Pt. I: Fear in Corporate America / The Cat

New Hire

The Waiting Room

A flash fiction piece exploring the absurdity of the Canadian healthcare system.

Last Call

A horror tale about scary going's on in a bar.

Ballot Day

"I take my fifteen minutes just standing in the deep freeze...I’m a big rig engine running too hot. I imagine that my skin doesn’t feel like hot, greasy parchment paper, that my feet don’t hurt, that my fingers aren’t perforated by a million cuts"

Last Time I Saw It

4HL

Secret Santa 5.30pm

Secret Santa 5.30pm Zoe Davis There was nothing secret About the shoddily wrapped gift Thrust with a giggle Into waiting hands Half past closing Mouthing ‘we’re not open’ With accompanying jazz hands...

"Walk of Shame"

Poem entitled, "Walk of Shame" published in the "Two Weeks Notice/Holiday Bonus" Winter '23 Issue of MIDLVLMAG.

Calibration

Disciplinary Actions May Be Taken To Correct Unsatisfactory Performance

On an elegant sideboard stood jars of dried plants and other preparations that were needed for the rituals, next to a selection of tools, including an impressive ceremonial athame in a glass case.