"Happiness is overrated…I reached across the desk and tapped a selection into the Acme 10, the mini converter sitting beneath my mug. Bulletproof coffee. Blecch. I don’t know what the hell I had been thinking with chai latte. I was bringing my happy home life to work again."

"The Perfect Employee", written by Claudia Brooke and narrated by Lorraine Ansell, was inspired by the keywords "happiness", "mug" and "converter".

Can you take three randomly assigned words and craft them into a story of 500 words or fewer? Take the Mash Challenge at http://mashstories.com.