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Triumphs and Turds — My Best and Worst Stories of 2022 (mostly worst)
80% of my work is pee in the pool, but every once in a while a story resonates with my readers. That’s why I write.
5 min readJan 3, 2023
On September 6, 2022, disaster struck.
That was the day I published a humorous story (although in retrospect maybe not so funny) about an anthropomorphic breakfast sandwich caught between two bumbling thieves and the Mob.
The title was so clever I expected readers to swarm to it as they do for Taylor Swift concert tickets.
We all know the swashbuckling story, “The Count of Monte Cristo” so I called mine “The Account of Monte Cristo.” See what I did there? Clever, huh?
Yeah well, it was my worst-performing article of the year. 11 unfortunate humans invested 48 minutes of their time skimming the story in a futile search for humor while paying me $1.65 for the ten hours it took to craft it.
