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

The takes are right. People can go verify. Chloe Dawn is twenty-two and she has a podcast, and the two facts coexist in her without any of the friction older people seem to expect. She is on the floor of the styling room with her back against a cabinet, listening to her own cut for the sixth time. Casandra sits down next to her without being invited, which is the whole basis of the friendship. They have noted something about somebody else this week, and they are not going to elaborate. Cataloguing the room is its own quiet pleasure. The ease is earned. That's the part you don't get to see. You just get the ease. Featured: Chloe Dawn, junior cohost. Casandra Cass, junior 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