It’s his first shift at the trendy burgers-and-fries restaurant. Behind the counter is a whiteboard labeled “Today’s potatoes are from…”

When the trainer asks him if he has questions, he wonders whether it isn’t more important to know where today’s meat is from.

It’s his last shift at the restaurant.

A graduate of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, Chad Greene experiments with twitter fiction @TheShortCourse.