James Gullickson

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Will slumped lower into the driver's seat.

His Taco Bell order was going to be late, and there was nothing he could do about it.

It was the strangest bout of helplessness Will had felt recently.

Someone 20 minutes away had ordered $47 worth of Taco Bell at 9 PM on a Tuesday.

and the teenagers behind the counter were taking their sweet time putting it all together.

He scrolled through Facebook Marketplace while he waited.

He'd been checking it obsessively for about six months, looking for things to flip.

It felt, in some small way, like putting his degree to use, a BA in art history that had cost his parents more than they could afford and given him no career skills whatsoever.