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The King of Retail
 
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The King of Retail, an Amazon Short
by Grant Jarrett (Author)
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Length:  9,921 words,
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About the Author
Grant Jarrett spent the first twenty years of his working life as a professional musician and occasional standup comic, and ... Read more
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Before realizing I could earn a substandard income as a writer, I ran a bike shop on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Ah, retail. If you've never had a job in retail you really are missing something. What you're missing is exhaustion, discontent, irritable bowel syndrome, bitterness, athletes' foot, free-floating rage, crotch rot, depression, chronic bedwetting, and a powerful urge to tear the eyelids off complete strangers. I was the King of Retail. And it was a good life. Well, it might have been...if not for the customers...and employees. "Heeeere, King."

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About the Author

Grant Jarrett spent the first twenty years of his working life as a professional musician and occasional standup comic, and the six years that followed managing a small business and working on a memoir about life on the road. For the last eight years Mr. Jarrett has made his living as a writer, editor and ghostwriter. In addition to his memoir, More Towels, which was published in 2001, he has written two novels, a collection of short stories and a novella. Mr. Jarrett now lives in New York City.

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Grant Jarrett sent the following post to customers who purchased The King of Retail
 
11:26 AM PDT, August 27, 2006, updated at 6:59 PM PDT, August 27, 2006
Since my last post, way back in the Eisenhower administration, Amazon has been kind enough, or foolish enough, to publish three more of my short stories.  The King of Retail is pretty close to the sad but funny truth about my life in retail; You Were Right is a hopefully humorous if somewhat hostile suicide note from husband to wife; and Punishment, more of a literary effort, describes a guilty man's inner struggle and his attempt to punish himself.

I am also proud to be included in Rebellion: New Voices of Fiction, a new short story collection by a diverse group of writers. 

I know I'm supposed to describe the details of my breakfast or the recent burglary of my apartment or perhaps wax philosophical about the indisputable link between reality TV and skin disease in general (and grog blossoms in particular), but I just can't bring myself to waste that much of your time right now. Plus my nose has developed a reddish hue and I've got this rash on my--

 
 
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