Just Compensation

by Ron Cooper, Taylor Voss (editor)

It's a sub-zero Super Bowl Sunday, 1989, in a small Pacific-Northwest town and the only full-service gas station is attended by a lone, grumpy high school kid working for minimum wage with a hangover. Bitter at his boss, and customers showing up to force him to work in the cold, he risks his reputation as the Best Employee Ever to earn a Just Compensation. Knowing nothing about cars doesn't prevent him from conning tips from his customers and scamming his boss for extra wages until he goes too far and has to clean up his tracks before he gets caught.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 28, 2023

About the author

Ron Cooper's novel, Hume's Fork, was called by author Ron Rash "one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time" and described by Rebecca Goldstein as a "mix of zaniness and erudition, satire and insight." His new novel, Purple Jesus, will appear in September 2010. He is a South Carolina native who moved to Florida in 1988 and teaches at the College of Central Florida. Cooper has a BA from the College of Charleston, an MA from the University of South Carolina, and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He is also the author of a number of philosophical works, including Heidegger and Whitehead: A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience."