Sharpwit Stories

Every overachiever knows the drill: graduate top of your class, land a fancy job, and watch your dreams come true. Rajini Rathore thought she was next in line. Instead, she's stuck in a corporate nightmare where layoffs are announced with flash mobs, promotions are reserved for the clueless, and the only thing "disruptive" about startups is the lack of chai breaks. At SparkPath, Rajini's AI-powered chai delivery project is drowned in office politics and unpaid overtime. At Stratos, her consulting job comes with "Motivational Mondays" and a boss who introduces actual dog leashes to symbolize loyalty. By the time she hits InnerBloom-a wellness startup forcing employees to meditate for bandwidth alignment-Rajini's faith in meritocracy has been reduced to ash. Her personal life isn't much better: a product manager dumps her via LinkedIn, a consultant steals her ideas for a promotion, and a UX designer turns their breakup into an app feature. But Rajini isn't done yet. Armed with her wit and a growing intolerance for corporate nonsense, she turns her misadventures into a viral blog, The Optimist's Debris, skewering hustle culture, toxic positivity, and the farce of modern work life. As her satire ignites a movement, Rajini faces the ultimate question: Can you survive the circus without becoming part of the act? Catch-22 Million Emails is a darkly funny, painfully relatable exploration of ambition, chaos, and the absurdity of corporate survival.

This is a story about finding love as a transgender female, and perhaps finding yourself as well. In many ways it is rather aggressive and abrupt, but it's still a love story. There are sardonic touches, wit and irony, and of course, discovery. It's quite short, everything happens quickly.

Author: Kim Harrison IN THE HOLLOWS, THE VAMPIRES COME OUT TO PLAY . . . AND IT'S ALWAYS WITCHING HOUR All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining --- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to keep that world civilized. A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she'll bring 'em back alive, dead . . . or undead.