Quarter Life Novels & Stories

I said late Friday afternoon as I stood in front of a whiteboard that was covered in bullet points and flowcharts. "Phase one: the casual 'runin.' We need to be spotted together at a modest but respectable public event that shouts, 'We're just two regular people falling in love, not a calculated PR move.'" Sprawling in the still-too-small armchair, Jett arched an eyebrow.

Increasing it by one hundred percent means I just made that figure rise to ten percent. I waited for them to calm down a bit before adding the catch. “But there’s a catch,” I say with a straight face and then the room goes silent with anticipation. “Our quota has also been increased by fifty percent so instead of bringing in five hundred million in sales yearly, which is one hundred and twenty five million for each quarter, we will be bringing in one hundred and eighty seven million five hundred thousand per quarter totaling at seven hundred and fifty million yearly.” “But ma” one of them interrupts