Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    No Substitutions
    No Substitutions
    No Substitutions
    Ebook25 pages21 minutes

    No Substitutions

    By Jim Harmon

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    If it was happening to him, all right, he could take that ... but what if he was happening to it?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781682997468
    No Substitutions

    Read more from Jim Harmon

    Related to No Substitutions

    Related ebooks

    Short Stories For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      It’s Meloni Time

      Aug 5, 2021

      It’s Meloni Time
      12 min read

    • Article

      The Sticky Tar Pit of Time

      Sep 11, 2019

      The Sticky Tar Pit of Time
      6 min read

    • Article

      Prey

      Mar 10, 2024

      As I drove slowly toward the mob of angry protestors and my meeting with 200, I thought of 199. The ashes of a once hard man, staring at me with wide eyes that pleaded for hope like a dog begging for treats. I’d somehow found a way to give him that h

      41 min read

    • Article

      The Mummy’s Curse

      Mar 22, 2023

      The Mummy’s Curse
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Cautionary Tale

      Apr 1, 2019

      A Cautionary Tale
      2 min read

    • Article

      Prey

      May 10, 2021

      As I drove slowly towards the mob of angry protestors and my meeting with 200, I thought of 199. The ashes of a once hard man, staring at me with wide eyes that pleaded for hope like a dog begging for treats. I’d somehow found a way to give him that

      41 min read

    • Article

      Caught Out

      Oct 2, 2022

      Caught Out
      9 min read

    • Article

      Fit the Description

      Sep 4, 2018

      Fit the Description
      10 min read

    • Article

      Keeping It Real

      Jan 7, 2022

      Keeping It Real
      8 min read

    • Article

      Leaning Into The Pain

      Nov 2, 2020

      Leaning Into The Pain
      13 min read

    • Article

      Love And Other (chemo) Drugs

      Apr 14, 2019

      Love And Other (chemo) Drugs
      12 min read

    • Article

      Why Do My Eyes Look Like Nipples?

      Aug 25, 2021

      Jem Clarke is in his very, very early fifties, is five foot zero inches tall and has never left the family home in Cleethorpes, which he still shares with his parents... ‘It’s a shame there’s not a nicer word for nipples,’ my Great-Aunt Jessie once t

      3 min read

    • Article

      L’homme Du Café

      Nov 10, 2021

      L’homme Du Café
      6 min read

    • Article

      Home Bodies

      Feb 24, 2021

      Home Bodies
      6 min read

    • Article

      You Talkin’ To Me?

      Dec 9, 2021

      You Talkin’ To Me?
      3 min read

    • Article

      Anti Hero

      Apr 7, 2022

      Anti Hero
      6 min read

    • Article

      Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I’m Trying To Stay Fearless, But It Becomes Harder When You’re More Visible’

      Jun 9, 2021

      On the set of his new film Queen & Slim, the British actor Daniel Kaluuya realised something about himself. “It’s really difficult to play people that are content,” he explains. “If you look at Get Out, my character was riddled with trauma, guilt and

      7 min read

    • Article

      Heavy Is The Crown

      Nov 19, 2021

      Heavy Is The Crown
      10 min read

    • Article

      Triple Threat

      Mar 8, 2020

      Triple Threat
      10 min read

    • Article

      Enforcing Capitalism In The Outer Worlds

      Feb 25, 2020

      1 Never do your own 2 Cut costs and turn a profit for the company. 3 Live by the company’s values Phineas Welles’ last day as a free man began with a handful of caffenoids—all the punch of a morning coffee and none of the warmth. Then breakfast: a cr

      6 min read

    • Article

      One Word: Striking

      Jun 26, 2019

      One Word: Striking
      4 min read

    • Article

      Sleepwalk On The Wild Side!

      Mar 7, 2024

      Sleepwalk On The Wild Side!
      9 min read

    • Article

      My Prison Experiment

      Jun 26, 2016

      My Prison Experiment
      124 min read

    • Article

      The Cruel Irony of Social Distancing When You’re Stuck in Solitary

      May 8, 2020

      To listen to my governor, Andrew Cuomo, hold his daily press conferences about COVID-19, I must sit on a cold, round metal stool inside a windowless 8-by-12-foot cell with a metal shower and toilet and an adjoining “rec pen” that feels like a caged,

      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for No Substitutions

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      No Substitutions - Jim Harmon

      No Substitutions

      By Jim Harmon

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

      All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

      First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-746-8

      No Substitutions

      By Jim Harmon

      If it was happening to him, all right, he could take that ... but what if he was happening to it?

      *

      Putting people painlessly to sleep is really a depressing job. It keeps me awake at night thinking of all those bodies I have sent to the vaults, and it interferes to a marked extent with my digestion. I thought before Councilman Coleman came to see me that there wasn’t much that could bother me worse.

      Coleman came in the morning before I was really ready to face the day. My nerves were fairly well shot from the kind of work I did as superintendent of Dreamland. I chewed up my pill to calm me down, the one to pep me up, the capsule to strengthen my qualities as a relentless perfectionist. I washed them down with gin and orange juice and sat back, building up my fortitude to do business over the polished deck of my desk.

      But instead of the usual morning run of hysterical relatives and masochistic mystics, I had to face one of my superiors from the Committee itself.

      Councilman Coleman was an impressive figure in a tailored black tunic. His olive features were set off by bristling black eyes and a mobile mustache.

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1