The water is the same every time. That helps. Jayme Nichols on a dock at the edge of a Dallas lake in the blue before sunrise. Ten minutes of not holding anything together. It is a practice, not a mood, and the distinction matters to her more than she can explain. She is the senior strategist of the Munchies division and in practice its center of gravity. She is carrying something she has told no one. The dock is for not examining things. You set the weight down. Then you choose, freshly, to pick it back up. That is the other half of the practice. Featured: Jayme Nichols, senior strategist. 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 weekday mornings. Follow the world at @marfamunchies on Instagram, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky. . . . | ai-assisted fiction