by Writing Workshops Staff
6 days ago
Every home cook knows the ritual: scroll past the childhood anecdote, scroll past the promise of a “perfect weeknight dinner,” scroll, scroll, scroll until you finally reach the ingredients.
Humor Writing Mentorship alum JJ Kambal looked at that wall of text nobody reads and saw the perfect hiding place for classified intelligence.
In “Mission Impossible Briefings Hidden in the Text Before the Recipe,” newly published at Points in Case, the IMF has traded self-destructing tapes for a fake food blog, and Ethan Hunt’s orders now arrive tucked between an Egg MacGuffin and a Duck Sauce Fried Rice.
Read JJ’s Piece at Points in Case
JJ sharpened his comic instincts in Sarah Garfinkel’s one-on-one humor mentorship, a three-month program built around reading short humor closely, drafting like an improviser, and revising like an editor. Sarah, a regular humor contributor to The New Yorker, counts Points in Case among the publications her mentees study, which makes seeing JJ’s byline there an especially satisfying full-circle moment. Congratulations, JJ!
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Work one-on-one with Sarah Garfinkel for three months and leave with up to six submission-ready humor pieces.
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