Highwayman Home Office

Highwayman Home Office

Published on July 24, 2023

Highwayman Home Office – Chapter 3 Of ISCPA’s Tax Savings E-Book

 

Googie agreed to meet me at the Mojave Trails National Monument so long as I advanced him his first week’s salary and a hiring bonus. He would be my official cameraman and personal assistant. Being the romantic that I am, I mused two personal outcomes in my mind. Googie and I would ride off into a martian sunset together when all this ended – or I’d offer him up to the aliens as a sacrifice and have an easy annulment once he was officially missing. Either way, it’d be a win for me. 

 

Pulling into Emma Jean’s Holland Burger Cafe at 11:11, I made a wish before ordering brunch.

 

Scanning the nostalgic restaurant from my corner table; I observed a mirage of familiar coziness cloaked in a buttery perfume of maple syrup. Weary long-haul truckers quietly sipped their coffee between warm exchanges with waitresses who knew them. Children scribbled on paper menus, half-engaging conversation with their parents about whatever exciting place they were headed to. The sizzle of bacon and clanking of plates on trays backdropped the scene as a soothing lo-fi ASMR. My focus drifted to impressively clear windows that framed the gray highway’s ascent into pale blue, infinite skies. If there were an observation bubble in space, I imagined it would feel something like Emma Jean’s. 

 

I read Iryna Stepanchuk’s most recent article while I waited for my food to arrive. 

 

Home Office Cleaning DeductionsVisions of Googie farting in my ergonomically designed office chair amid a desk cluttered with greasy burger wrappers and half-empty soda cans was wiped clear by a chiseled cleaning merman with scales made of shiny one-hundred dollar bills. 

“Hello, are you there?” The waitress interrupted my daydream with a hot plate of food and raised eyebrows that emphasized her question, “are you okay?”

“Ah, yes – excuse me. Lost in my thoughts. This looks great, thank you.”

“Don’t worry about it. Plenty of my diners are stranger than you. Weird things happen on the road around here… Have you heard of the highwayman?” She pulled her head back as if to get a clearer look at me while I answered her question.

“I haven’t… but believe it or not, I just so happen to be looking for aliens on route 66.”

“You don’t gotta look for them here. You just keep driving, they’ll find you. No doubt about that.”

“JENNIFER!” The cook called for my waitress who promptly left me with a heartfelt “Good luck!”

Evidently my phone’s signal had been too weak inside of the restaurant to get the alerts from Googie that had come in while I’d been eating. 

 

Hey, it’s me. 

I’m on my way. 

This is really crazy. 

I think I made contact with something…

Out here on the highway. 

What do you know about entities?

 

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