Herschell Ostrepeller’s Frustrating Day…

Alan J. Schwarz
12 min readSep 15, 2021

The alarm hadn’t gone off and Herschell Ostrepeller was lying in bed trying to make sense of the awful dream he just had. He was walking in a hallway and in every room he looked into, there was blood and other gross things, like a deer hanging upside down. He wasn’t a hunter and didn’t get the correlation to his life. What was with all the blood? It was while he was trying to figure things out that Sondra walked into his room. ‘’Jeez Herschell, are you on some kind of holiday? You should have been washed and dressed a half hour ago. You’re going to be late for work, and that Mr. Peterman is going to cut your balls off. Remember last month when he told you he couldn’t stand tardiness. You need this job, so get your ass out of bed and get moving.’’

Herschell absolutely despised his job. Some people loved what they did for a living, he wasn’t one of them. He worked with some grade A jerks and Todd Peterman led the pack.

Herschell was an Account Executive for the International Digital Bank. His job was to make sure that people who were into Cryptocurrency used IDB for converting their tokens into cash. He found the clientele for the most part sleazy and he always felt like he was contributing to something illegal, even if IDB was continually providing documentation regarding financial transfers to bank regulators.

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Alan J. Schwarz

Alan Schwarz loves life. He is the founder of JAMS Productions, a television production company based in Toronto . His passion is writing.