Matthew Baker | A Bad Day in Utopia
She’d had a hard day. Earlier that morning she’d discovered that the game her company was developing, which was already months behind schedule for release, had a glitch somewhere in the code that caused the game to crash if the player character was equipped with diamond armor on the level with the meteors, and nobody could figure out why. It didn’t make any sense. It was a total nightmare. Anna, her boss, was mad at her for leaving dirty dishes in the kitchen again. | Copyright 2019 by Matthew Baker. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Sylvia Spruck Wrigley | Alive, Alive Oh

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