Office Chronicles

by Natalie Hart

Office jobs can be hectic, challenging, stressful or a complete bore, but Natalie’s Office Chronicles collection of nine short stories offers a more fanciful or even disconcerting look at office life. You might even recognize someone you know, not yourself of course, in one of the stories.
Take Harry's quest of upward in more ways than one mobility when he discovers he can cut hours off his daily commute into NYC’s financial district and the solution drops onto his deck the next morning. Follow Harry and Pearl’s adventures to a life they both deserve in Harry the Commuter . There are always consequences for lying, and when Perry James buys the infamous Franklin Building but neglects to read the contract in Fine Print , he feels that mistake right down to his little piggy that went to market toe. When Beverly’s friends set her up on a blind date, her it’s just a date, I’m not marrying the man attitude brings her to the Macy’s makeup counter for the ultimate do-over in Luminesse .
Five other short Who Do Voodoo We Do, Miss JaNeen 1,2,3, Happy Birthday, Joe, Snow Cone, The 4:30 Caller and Gwen’s Dream Vacation complete the collection.
Natalie’s second book of short stories, Sheltered Lives, gives a glimpse of people caught up in their own imaginary world, struggling to make it on their own.

184 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2023

About the author

Natalie Hart is a 30something author living in Ireland. She lives with a flatmate who is equally unlucky with love. Natalie likes strong beers, even though they’re bad for her. She listens to everything from math rock, to black metal, to 60’s psychedelia and film soundtracks. Natalie likes to cycle and her dream is to spend a summer peddling her bike around Europe with a tent.

Natalie strives to write characters with depth, especially strong and resilient women. They can survive without a man, they'd just prefer not to.

Natalie’s first publication is Dive Bar Heat in her Grant's Bar Romance series. It follows the lives of the loyal customer of Grant's, a dive bar filled with (mostly) friendly patrons, and with a selection of beer sure to suit anyone.