Horrorstor

“That’s your problem,” Basil said. “For you it’s ‘just’ a job.”

“What’s it supposed to be?”

“Work.”

“Same thing,” Amy said.

“No,” Basil said. “A job is what a guy in a gas station has. People at Orsk have work. It’s a calling. A responsibility to something bigger than yourself. Work gives you a goal. It lets you build something that lives on after you’re gone. Work has a purpose beyond making money.”

“I am begging you to stop,” Amy said.

Orsk was the all-American furniture superstore in Scandinavian drag

“Your sentences are just habits. You’ve been free for decades—you just never realized it!”

“You change when you get older,” Ruth Anne said. “You’ll see.”

Orsk gave him a job and turned his life around. Some people get church, some people get A.A., others get gangs. Basil got Orsk.”

In her opinion, nothing was worse than a store that pretended to be something it was not.