Glass Bricks

by Louella Lester

Overview

What does it mean to work for a living?

Told in short prose, Glass Bricks tells the story of Lester’s experience working both traditional and non-traditional jobs. Sometimes raw and often humourous, Lester shares stories about learning to work, working, and moving on. Glass Bricks explores the significance of our basic human right to work in an era where the struggle to find meaningful, full-time employment is all too real.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988168920
Publisher:	At Bay Press
Publication date:	04/27/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Louella Lester is a Winnipeg-based writer and amateur photographer. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction has appeared in journals such as, New Flash Fiction, Spelk, Reflex Fiction, Vallum, Prairie Fire, The Antigonish Review, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, at CBC News Manitoba Online, and in the anthologies, Gush: menstrual manifestos for our times, (Frontenac House, 2018), A Girl's Guide to Fly Fishing, (Reflex Press, 2020), and Wrong Way Go Back (Pure Slush, 2020).

Table of Contents

Part 1 Learning Work Ethic

Lesson: Suck It Up 1

Job: Frozen Eyes 3

Lesson: Bosses Are Fallible 6

Job: Screen Door 7

Lesson: Stay Awake 10

Job: I Will Not Give Him a Name 11

Lesson: Getting Away With It 13

Job: Wobbling 14

Lesson: Take Pride In Your Work 16

Part 2 Take A Risk

Job: Is It Real? 19

The First 22

Mechanical Snippets (1977) 1 - 5 25

Part 3 More Work Ethic

Lesson: Stick to Your Guns 29

Job: Solo Night Shift 31

Lesson: Sell Yourself 33

Job: Get the Dirt Out From Under Your Nails 36

Lesson: Everyone Needs Company 37

Job: Chewed Up and Spit Out 38

Lesson: Is the Cookie Worth It? 40

Job: Classical Conditioning 42

Lesson: You Can't Always Win 43

Job: Effectively Directing Your Anger 44

Lesson: What You Don't Know Can't Hurt You 46

Job: Quick Money 48

Lesson: Pull Together 52

Job: Looking Down 54

Lesson: No Time For Play 56

Job: Glass Bricks 58

Lesson: Cleaning Always Seems to be Involved 59

Job: Cleaning Music 60

Lesson: Consider the Practical 61

Job: Contours 63

Lesson: It's Not Always Easy to Rein It In 64

Job: Caught in a Cloud 65

Lesson: Patience Rewarded 67

Job: Opening the Car Door 68

Lesson: Pushing Through 70

Job: Mops, Envelopes, and Numbers 72

Part 4 Using Every Skill You've Ever Learned

Teaching Junior High (1987 - 1994) 1 - 9 75

A Year Off to Write (1994 - 1995) 83

1 Saturday at the Group Home 83

2 Explaining Gatsby 85

Teaching Senior High (1995 - 2012) 1 - 5 87

Notes on Sources 92

Acknowledgements 93