Marfa Munchies: Episode 2, Wednesday - The Name She Says

The water is reliable. That's what helps. Jayme Nichols, pre-dawn. The reservoir outside DFW. Three years of Wednesday mornings, never missed one. Ten minutes at the end of the dock, gray water, no office, no pitch, no season. She says a name in her head. Her own business, not the audience's - but structural, the thing that makes the rest make sense. The water absorbs it, no opinion. The peace is conditional. The ten minutes are not. The name is not. She carries what Tuesday said. The scar tissue is real - two quarters carried without dropping, marks that look like hesitation from the outside but are knowledge from the inside. But knowledge has its own cost: you can know so much about the weight of a thing that you stop asking whether it's worth lifting. She stands up and goes to the car. She is the same person who sat down. She is also the person who will hear the pitch when Melissa is ready. The tabling is over. Featured: Jayme Nichols, division lead. The Marfa Munchies is a daily fiction podcast about a food, beverage, and lifestyle division of a creative agency between Marfa and Dallas. New episodes every morning. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction